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Headword:
Ἐπίκωμος
Adler number: epsilon,2409
Translated headword: reveller
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Insolent man, fellow-rejoicer.[1]
"These things seemed to happen uselessly, as an excessive reveller [sc. might do]."
Procopius says [this][2] about the emperor
Theodosius.[3]
Ἐπίκωμος: ὑβριστής, συγχαίρων. ταῦτα δὲ ἀχρεῖα τυγχάνειν ἔδοξεν, ὡς περιττὸς ἐπίκωμος. ὁ Προκόπιός φησι περὶ Θεοδοσίου βασιλέως.
Notes:
[1] Similarly glossed in
Hesychius and the
Lexica Segueriana (230.27).
[2] No:
Priscus (
pi 2301); fr.53 Bornmann. According to de Boor, Küster thought that the name "Priskos" had been altered to "Prokopios"; but de Boor says the attribution to
Priscus must remain doubtful.
[3]
Theodosius II (
theta 145).
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418, 421f.
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 November 2007@00:46:39.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 8 November 2007@03:23:31.
Catharine Roth (expanded note and reference) on 28 December 2009@21:56:41.
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