Suda On Line menu Search

Home
Search results for epsilon,1069 in Adler number:
Greek display:    
Headword: Ἔμφασιν
Adler number: epsilon,1069
Translated headword: impression
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Pretence, thought; or size.[1]
Polybius [writes]: "Philip retreated in confusion, creating an impression that he had returned for one of the operations in the Peloponnese".[2]
"This defence [read: abuse] and impressions no educated man would have proffered, not even someone selling his body in a brothel".[3]
Greek Original:
Ἔμφασιν: προσποίησιν, ἐννόησιν: ἢ τὸ μέγεθος. Πολύβιος: ὁ δὲ Φίλιππος ἀνεχώρησε διαταραχθείς, ποιῶν δὲ ἔμφασιν, ὡς ἐπί τινα τῶν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ πράξεων ἐπεστροφώς. ταύτην δὲ τὴν ἀπολογίαν καὶ τὰς ἐμφάσεις οὐχ οἷον ἄν τις διέθετο πεπαιδευμένος ἀνήρ, ἀλλ' οὐδὲ τῶν ἀπὸ τέγους ἄχρι τοῦ σώματος εἰργασμένων οὐδείς.
Notes:
See also epsilon 1070.
[1] Accusative case, presumably from the first quotation which follows.
[2] Polybius 5.110.6 (the first part of it paraphrased), on Philip V of Macedon in 217/16.
[3] Polybius 12.13.2; cf. delta 472, epsilon 1070.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 April 2007@09:30:43.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 6 April 2007@11:28:28.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 8 April 2007@04:12:28.
Find      

Test Database Real Database

(Try these tips for more productive searches.)
No. of records found: 1    Page 1

End of search