Ἀκροσφαλεῖς
precarious
Translated by Jennifer Benedict5 Mar 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀκροσφαλεῖς· ἄκρως ἐσφαλμένους. ὁ δὲ ἐκέλευσε χωρεῖν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄποδας καὶ ἀκροσφαλεῖς Οὔννους. ἄνευ γὰρ ἵππων οὐ ῥᾳδίως ἂν Οὖννος τὴν γῆν πατήσειεν.
Betacode
*)akrosfalei=s: a)/krws e)sfalme/nous. o( de\ e)ke/leuse xwrei=n e)pi\ tou\s a)/podas kai\ a)krosfalei=s *ou)/nnous. a)/neu ga\r i(/ppwn ou) r(a|di/ws a)\n *ou)=nnos th\n gh=n path/seien.
Notes (2)
- 1Same glossing of this accusative plural headword -- at alpha 1019 it is nominative plural -- in Photius and other lexica. (In the Greek the gloss is more obviously etymological than it can be made to sound in translation.) The headword is extracted not from the quotation given here (which the other lexica do not have) but from Plato, Republic 404B; see the scholia there. ↩
- 2cf. again alpha 3279. Banchich supports the suggestion of O.J. Maenchen-Helfen that this passage is derived from Eunapius' History (via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti). ↩
References
Banchich, Thomas. "An Identification in the Suda: Eunapius on the Huns." Classical Philology 83 (1988): 53.
Linked from2 entries
- α1019Ἀκροσφαλεῖςprecarious[Meaning they who are] stumbling in the [act of] walking. That is the Huns. In Philoctetes: "...that all things are awful for mortals and uncertain: to fare well or to fare otherwise. It is necessary for one who is…
- α3279ἌποδαςfootlessWhat they call the Huns. Look also under a)krosfalei=s ["wobblies"].
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Revision history7 revisions · last 16 May 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1; another keyword — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
- augmented note, added bibliography — Catharine Roth
- added notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict