The headword is the neuter nominative, vocative, and accusative (and masculine accusative) singular form of the adjective
μεγαλεῖος, -α, -ον ; see LSJ s.v.,
mu 357,
mu 358,
mu 360, and
mu 361. Here, as the context shows, it is neuter accusative, used (in a common Greek idiom) as if it were an abstract noun. The lemma is contained within, and evidently extracted from, a fuller entry already at
epsilon 1348 (cf. n. 1-2).
[1] Ennius. Originally from Messapia (Barrington
Atlas map 45 grid G4; the region of Salento, southeastern Apulia, in modern Italy), the naturalized Roman poet Quintus Ennius (239-169, OCD(3) s.v.,
epsilon 1348) wrote an encomium on Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236-183); OCD(3), p. 398; Walbank, p. 191ff; and
pi 2054.
[2]
Aelian fr.116 Hercher (Domingo-Forasté, p. 87). In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that Asmus had incorrectly located this fragment within
Damascius'
Life of Isidore (Asmus, p. 448, 479). Gaisford (
rashly, by Adler's lights) replaced the headword with
Μεγαλόνοια (
great intelligence), which appears in the quotation in the accusative singular, and moved the passage so that it followed
mu 360; there is no reason to do so, as the headword does appear in the more complete passage at
epsilon 1348. Kuster deleted
αὖθις ["moreover"], so that this entry conforms to
epsilon 1348, and restored the lemma by inserting
τὸ μεγαλεῖον after
μέτρων (so Adler). Finally, Adler notes that Bernhardy deleted this entry altogether.
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. II, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967
D. Domingo-Forasté, ed., Clavdii Aeliani: Epistvlae et Fragmenta, Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1994
J.R. Asmus, "Zur Rekonstruktion von Damascius' Leben des Isidorus," Byzantinische Zeitschrift, vol. 18, 1909, pp. 424-80
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