Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for delta,326 in Adler number:
Headword:
Deimainei
Adler number: delta,326
Translated headword: is frightened
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] fears.[1]
Procopius [writes]: "neither fearing any fear in the presence of her spouse nor did she ever derive any shame from an action."[2]
"All of them were afraid and were astounded by listening to the eunuch Eutropius, just like the suitors seeing Odysseus stripped of his rags."[3]
Also [sc. attested is]
deimai/nonta, [meaning him] fearing.[4]
"They were especially afraid also for the circuit-wall, surrounding a large area."[5]
Deimainei: phobeitai. Prokopios: oude ti pros tou xunoikountos deimainousa deos oute aidô tina ergou elambane pôpote. pantes deimainontes tou eunouchou Eutropiou tên akoên exestêkesan, kathaper hoi mnêstêres ton Odussea gumnôthenta tôn rhakiôn idontes. kai Deimainonta, phoboumenon. hoi de malista men kai hôs amphi tôi peribolôi deimainontes, chôran peribeblêmenôi pollên.
Notes:
cf. generally
delta 321,
delta 324,
delta 325,
delta 327.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere (perhaps
Plato,
Republic 330E, though there are other possibilities; cf. e.g. under
delta 1071).
[2] An approximation of
Procopius,
Secret History 1.13 (web address 1), describing the shamelessness of the wife of Belisarius. Cf.
kappa 536.
[3] Attributed to
Eunapius by Bernhardy, comparing frs. 66-67 FHG (4.44). (Odysseus sheds his rags -- and proceeds to kill his wife's suitors -- at the beginning of
Homer,
Odyssey 22.)
[4] Perhaps quoted from
Herodotus (3.35.4 or 9.73.2).
[5]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 2.6.24 (web address 2), on the citizenry of
Hierapolis (in modern-day northern
Syria, cf.
alpha 465 note), confronted with a ransom demand by the invading Persian king Chosroes in 540 CE; cf. Kaldellis (86) and further context at
alpha 2363 and
gamma 422.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; clothing; definition; epic; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 March 2005@20:04:15.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search