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Headword:
*)epeqei/aze
Adler number: epsilon,2031
Translated headword: was putting on the god
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] was behaving maniacally, was becoming god-possessed.[1]
Menander [writes]: "the commander went up on one of the 7 hills, started putting on the god with foreign utterances and with his haughty mind started using arrogant speech."[2]
*)epeqei/aze: manikw=s dieti/qeto, qeo/lhptos e)gi/gneto. *me/nandros: o( de\ h(gemw\n e)n e(ni\ tw=n z# lo/fwn a)nelqw\n e)peqei/aze r(h/masi barba/rois kai\ gau/rw| tw=| fronh/mati megalhgori/a| e)xrh=to.
Notes:
[1] For this verb cf.
epsilon 2032,
epsilon 2331, and
Hesychius epsilon4309. Its third person singular imperfect, here, is presumably extracted from the quotation given (though there are earlier instances in
Josephus, Appian and
Philostratus).
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 36 Blockley, probably via a lost part of the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.
Translated by: William Hutton on 31 August 2007@05:12:34.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (supplemented tr; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 31 August 2007@07:29:55.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference, raised status) on 24 October 2007@11:35:33.
David Whitehead (updated ref) on 3 January 2012@05:45:18.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 21 January 2016@06:38:07.
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