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Headword:
*)epia/lthn
Adler number: epsilon,2221
Translated headword: nightmare
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Homer and Hesiod and the Attic [Greeks] [mean by
epialtes] the
demon [of that name],[1] but with a phi [they spell the name of] the man Ephialtes.[2] And [sc. note also] that which is called ague.[3]
Greek Original:*)epia/lthn: *(/omhros kai\ *(hsi/odos kai\ oi( *)attikoi\ to\n dai/mona, dia\ de\ tou= f to\n a)/ndra *)efia/lthn. kai\ to\ r(igopu/retos lego/menon.
Notes:
Same entry in the derivative ps.-
Zonaras, including the last sentence (on which see n.3 below); without it, the entry =
Photius,
Lexicon p1484 Theodoridis. Epic usage in
Homer,
Iliad 5.385 (web address 1); also Hesiod fr.10. For Ep(h)ialtes and (human) Ephialtes see generally OCD(4) s.v., nos.1-4.
Similar material, variously (and more briefly), in
Moeris,
Hesychius, and other lexica. Post-Suda,
Eustathius cites it as from a rhetorical lexicon:
Commentary on the Iliad, 561.16 and
Commentary on the Odyssey, 1687.52.
[1] cf.
epsilon 3909,
iota 765.
[2] For instances see under
lambda 272 and
omicron 104.
[3] Not directly relevant here, as this affliction is
h)pi/alos; see
eta 433.
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; dreams; epic; medicine; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 22 July 2003@09:19:44.
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