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Headword:
Μέγας
βασιλεύς
Adler number: mu,389
Translated headword: Great King
Vetting Status: low
Translation: The [king] of the Persians. [So called] because they used the greater power of the Persian Empire.[1]
To the other [kings] they added also the names of those who were ruled, as "of the Lacedaimonians", "of the Macedonians". See also under
basileus megas.[2]
The nominative,
ho megas, has neither genitive nor dative; the accusative [is]
ton megan.[3] The vocative is found in poetry; as
Agathias says in the
Epigrams: "O greatly daring wax [which portrayed you]."[4]
Μέγας βασιλεύς: ὁ τῶν Περσῶν. διὰ τὸ πλείονι δυνάμει χρῆσθαι τῇ Περσικῇ. τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους προσετίθεσαν καὶ τῶν ἀρχομένων τὰ ὀνόματα, οἷον Λακεδαιμονίων, Μακεδόνων. καὶ ζήτει ἐν τῷ βασιλεὺς μέγας. ἡ εὐθεῖα, ὁ μέγας, γενικὴν οὐκ ἔχει οὔτε δοτικήν: ἡ αἰτιατική, τὸν μέγαν. ἡ δὲ κλητικὴ εὕρηται παρὰ τοῖς ποιηταῖς: ὥς φησιν Ἀγαθίας ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι: ἆ μέγα τολμήεις κηρός.
Notes:
[1] This gloss draws on the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 170 (where the phrase "Great King" occurs). It is awkwardly phrased, and the translation by W.G. Rutherford recasts it as follows: "because the resources of Persia made him more than ordinarily powerful".
[2]
beta 144.
[3] The other cases are formed from the stem
megalo-;
Aeschylus once uses the vocative
megale (
Seven Against Thebes 822).
[4]
Greek Anthology 1.34.2:
Agathias (6th c. AD), addressing the icon of an archangel; cf.
alpha 1,
sigma 664.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 November 2000@22:18:06.
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