[Meaning] they behave arrogantly in their speeches.[1]
"The dignified Hasdrubal, all his fine words forgotten, fell on his knees before the general [i.e. Scipio
Aemilianus]".[2]
*semnomuqou=sin: u(perhfaneu/ontai e)n lo/gois. o( de\ semno\s *(asdrou/bas sune/pese tw=| strathgw=| pro\s ta\ go/nata, e)pilelhsme/nos th=s megalorrhmosu/nhs.
[1] Likewise in other lexica: see the references at
Photius sigma142 Theodoridis, where the editor claims the source of the headword itself -- third person plural, present indicative active, of
semnomuqe/w (a rare variant, first in
Euripides, of
semnologe/w,
sigma 225) -- as
Philo Judaeus [of Alexandria],
de congressu eruditionis gratia 130.
[2] For Hasdrubal cf.
phi 302. The present quotation has from time to time been attributed to and taken away from
Polybius (not in B-W, for instance); Favuzzi [see under
alpha 1596] 207-208 now assigns it on vocabulary-based grounds to John of
Antioch.
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