[Meaning] being boastful. "[I received from you] the art [...]swollen under resounding boasts and ponderous phrases."[1]
And
Eunapius [writes]: "when so great an evil was swelling and festering beneath."[2]
"But [Darius] decided not to send the army openly, as matters were still swelling."[3]
*oi)dou=san: kompw/dh ou)=san. th\n te/xnhn. oi)dou=san u(po\ kompasma/twn kai\ r(hma/twn e)paxqw=n. kai\ *eu)na/pios: tosou/tou de\ oi)dou=ntos kai\ u(pofuome/nou kakou=. o( de\ e)k th=s i)qei/hs ou)k e)do/kee pe/mpein to\n strato/n, a(/te tw=n pragma/twn e)/ti oi)dou/ntwn.
The headword is present active participle, feminine accusative singular, of the verb
oi)de/w "swell" (
omicroniota 30); cf.
oi)dai/nwn (
omicroniota 28). It is extracted from the first quotation given, where it agrees with
te/xnhn "art". The glossing phrase "being boastful" comes from the
scholia to line 940; cf.
omicroniota 31.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 939-940, where
Euripides complains that he inherited an art or style of tragedy from
Aeschylus that was swollen, pompous and ponderous.
Aristophanes plays on the double sense of
ko/mpos "clashing noise, boast" to describe this style (cf.
komphro/s), and uses the medical metaphor of a swelling (resulting from bruises) that must be treated and healed, as
Euripides claims to have done.
[2]
Eunapius fr.1.271.20 Dindorf = fr.91 FHG (4.53).
[3]
Herodotus 3.127 (cf. 3.76), of Darius' ruse for getting rid of Oroetes. See also
iota 245.
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