Being boastful. “(I received from you) the art… swollen under resounding boasts and ponderous phrases.”[1]
And
Eunapius: “When so great an evil was swelling and festering beneath.”[2]
“But he (sc. Darius) decided not to send the army openly, as matters were still in a turmoil.”[3]
The form is the accusative feminine singular of the present participle active of
οἰδέω ‘swell” (
omicroniota 30), cf.
οἰδαίνων (
omicroniota 28). It is taken from the first citation, where it agrees with
τέχνην , ‘art’. The definition “being boastful” comes from the
scholia ad loc., cf.
omicroniota 31.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 939-40, where
Euripides complains that he inherited an art or style of tragedy from
Aeschylus that was swollen, pompous and ponderous.
Aristophanes plays on the double sense of
κόμπος ‘clashing noise, boast’ to describe this style (cf.
κομπηρός ), and uses the medical metaphor of a swelling (resulting from bruises) that must be treated and healed, as
Euripides claims to have done.
[2] Fr.1.271.20 Dindorf = fr.91 FHG (4.53).
[3]
Herodotus 3.127 (cf. 3.76), of Darius’s ruse for getting rid of Oroetes. See also
iota 245.
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