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Headword:
Hupsagoras
Adler number: upsilon,743
Translated headword: big talker, braggart
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] boaster.[1]
"He used boastful talk and he was a kind of braggart and harsh. But Bonus, not easing off at all in his words, reminded [sc. him] of the battle in Scythia."[2]
Greek Original:Hupsagoras: hupsilogos. echrêto de kompologiais kai hupsêgoras tis ên kai trachus. ho de Bônos kat' ouden tois rhêmasin hupochalasas anemimnêske tês en Skuthiai machês.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon; references at
Photius upsilon327 Theodoridis. The headword itself seems to have the short alpha, as in
Homer, while the quotation which follows has a long vowel with Ionic spelling
u(yhgo/ras; cf.
upsilon 745.
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 33.2 Blockley. For other entries mentioning Bonus, see
beta 495,
epsilon 498,
epsilon 2310.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 April 2011@22:55:24.
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