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Headword: *)epalla/cantes
Adler number: epsilon,1940
Translated headword: passing over
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning they] (?)selecting.
Greek Original:
*)epalla/cantes: e)pile/cantes.
Note:
Likewise in Photius, but the gloss is an error. The headword itself -- aorist active participle, masculine nominative plural, of e)palla/ssw -- occurs in Homer, Iliad 13.359 (web address 1) where, in an image about warfare, it refers to "passing over" one end of a rope over the other to make a knot. This is glossed in Apollonios Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon (70.26, cf. 75.17, 129.18; Hesychius epsilon4131) with e)piple/cantes ('intertwining'), among other words. Surely this is the ultimate origin of the Suda's nonsensical e)pile/cantes ('selecting'), an error already in Lexica Segueriana 226.6, and repeated in ps.-Zonaras.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; military affairs; poetry; science and technology
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 August 2007@08:47:52.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded parts of note; more keywords) on 21 August 2007@09:28:00.
David Whitehead on 28 September 2012@06:50:04.
David Whitehead (expanded note; cosmetic) on 28 August 2013@09:04:06.

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