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Headword: *)epiqeia/swn
Adler number: epsilon,2331
Translated headword: to call upon, to invoke
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning intending] to hold a festival.[1] "And he stayed there [sc. intending] to call upon [God] on the day of Christ's birth. For the majesty of the day was approaching."[2]
Greek Original:
*)epiqeia/swn: e(orta/swn. o( de\ e)/meinen au)tou= e)piqeia/swn th=| geneqli/a| h(me/ra| tou= *xristou=. kai\ ga\r prosepe/laze th=s h(me/ras to\ se/bas.
Notes:
cf. generally epsilon 2031, epsilon 2032, epsilon 2329, epsilon 2330.
[1] Headword and glosses are future participles in the masculine nominative singular; the headword one, from e)piqea/zw/e)piqeia/zw, is evidently extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; religion
Translated by: Kyle Heath on 1 December 2005@09:30:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added notes and more keywords) on 1 December 2005@09:42:25.
Catharine Roth (added cross-references) on 24 October 2007@11:31:51.
Catharine Roth (added another cross-reference) on 27 October 2007@19:34:45.
David Whitehead (updated ref) on 3 January 2012@05:51:00.
David Whitehead on 11 October 2012@08:47:36.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 27 January 2016@11:18:22.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 26 August 2017@20:58:33.

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