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Headword:
Epiphuomenos
Adler number: epsilon,2759
Translated headword: applying himself to, attaching himself to
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with a dative.[1] [Meaning he] clinging to. "Attaching himself to [others of] them with his hands he begged them [...] to help in his time of distress."[2]
And elsewhere: "when night had come they applied themselves to the two."[3] Meaning they started, they attempted.
Greek Original:Epiphuomenos: dotikêi. periplekomenos. tois de tais chersin epiphuomenos edeito boêthêsai tois aklêrêmasi. kai authis: nuktos genomenês epephuonto tois dusin. anti tou katêrchonto, epecheiroun.
Notes:
The headword (presumably extracted from the first quotation given) is the present middle-passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of the compound verb
e)pifu/w.
[1] Comparably, according to Adler, in the
Syntacticum Laurentianum and
Syntacticum Gudianum.
[2] An approximation of
Diodorus Siculus 36.15.2, via the
Excerpta de legationibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 408.30-31. The subject is Saturninus (cf. under
epsilon 1055).
[3] Quotation (and context) unidentifiable, but Bruhn (
RhM 45 (1886): 274) suggests a connection with the passage quoted in
epsilon 2709, ascribed to
Aelian (fr. 262 Hercher, 260 Domingo-Forasté).
Translated by: William Hutton on 13 February 2008@09:38:32.
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