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Headword:
Οἴδημα
Adler number: omicroniota,31
Translated headword: a (soft, painless) swelling
Vetting Status: low
Translation: A distension [e.g. of veins], an inflamed swelling, an abscess. By metaphor from bodies, it is also used for elation and swollen pride.[1]
“When she was puffed up by a swollen self-esteem (swelling of self-esteem) and treated with reverence by the bishops.”[2]
“It happened that his foot was puffed up into a swelling, and, after getting inflamed, turned gangrened.”[3]
Greek Original:Οἴδημα: ὄγκωμα, φλεγμονή, ἀπόστημα. ὡς ἐκ μεταφορᾶς τῶν σωμάτων, καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς ἐπάρσεως καὶ φυσιώσεως λέγεται. τῆς δὲ εἰς οἴδημα ἀρθείσης φρονήματος, καὶ παρὰ τῶν ἐπισκόπων προσκυνουμένης. συνέβη δὲ τὸν πόδα αὐτοῦ εἰς οἴδημα ἀρθῆναι καὶ φλεγμήναντα σφακελίσαι.
Notes:
Also
Photius,
Lex. omicron318. See
omicroniota 32,
omicroniota 30,
omicroniota 34,
omicroniota 37,
omicroniota 28.
[1] The word translated here as 'swollen pride',
φυσίωσις , is rare both as a medical term (
omicroniota 30, cf.
Hesychius phi1051) and as a metaphor (NT, 2Ep. Corinth. 12.20, a passage which received frequent commentaries).
[2] Also at
lambda 254 (about 7 lines down), of the Empress Eusebia (web address 1 and reference below), wife of Emperor Constantius II (OCD3 381). Her support of the Arian bishops and influence over her husband brought her mixed reviews. This passage appears in the Bidez- Winkelmann edition of Philostorgius at p.84.
[3]
Aelian fr.37 Hercher; cf.
epsilon 1211,
sigma 1711. It refers to an episode in the reconquest of Egypt in 343 B.C. by the Persian King Artaxerxes III Ochus (OCD3 182), for which see
alpha 3201,
omega 284. He had killed the sacred bull-calf Apis and was planning to have it butchered for dinner. One of the company kicked the carcase with one foot and died of gangrene in that foot. The story may in fact be taken from that of Cambyses in
Herodotus 3.27-29 (see note on
omega 284).
Reference:
S. Tougher, "Ammianus Marcellinus on the empress Eusebia: a split personality," Greece and Rome 47 (2000) 94-101.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; history; imagery; medicine; religion; rhetoric; women; zoology
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 12 January 2003@10:41:59.
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