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Ἄγη · awe, curse, charm; breaking (α 212) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near α212

α208potlet
α209to plunder and to pillage
α210cripple, beggar
α211collects
α212awe, curse, charm; breaking
α213they had gathered
α214to drive out, to drive out a curse
α215to banish as accursed
α216curse-expelling

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Ἄγη

awe, curse, charm; breaking

Translated by William Hutton22 Oct 2000Vetting: high5 revisions

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4 notes · 38 words

Translation

It is indeclinable.¹
[It means]² wonder, delight, disbelief, eagerness; in Herodotus, malice;³ in Homer, amazement, shock, smashing, breaking, destruction;⁴ some [define it as] sacrificial offerings.
So a)/gh, paroxytone, [means] amazement; but a)gh/ [is] the breaking of the wave.⁵

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄγη. ἄκλιτόν ἐστι. θαῦμα, χαρὰ, ἀπιστία, ζῆλος, παρ' Ἡροδότῳ βασκανία, παρ' Ὁμήρῳ ἔκπληξις, πληγὴ, θραῦσις, κλάσις, ἀπώλεια· ἔνιοι, ἱερεῖα. Ἄγη μὲν οὖν παροξυτόνως ἡ ἔκπληξις· Ἀγὴ δὲ ἡ κλάσις τοῦ κύματος.

Betacode

*)/agh. a)/klito/n e)sti. qau=ma, xara\, a)pisti/a, zh=los, par' *(hrodo/tw| baskani/a, par' *(omh/rw| e)/kplhcis, plhgh\, qrau=sis, kla/sis, a)pw/leia: e)/nioi, i(erei=a. *)/agh me\n ou)=n parocuto/nws h( e)/kplhcis: *)agh\ de\ h( kla/sis tou= ku/matos.

Notes (4)

[1] (A marginal addition, Adler reports, in ms M.) The word occurs only in the nominative singular in Homer, where it appears related to the indeclinable adverb a)/gan 'too much'. E. Risch takes it as a rare disyllabic root ending in a vowel, cf. the related verb a)/gamai 'admire' (Wortbildung der homerischen Sprache §3d, p.4). See H.-J. Mette's brief but useful entry in Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos I (fasc. 1, 1955) 62-63. It is, however, declined in later Greek as a first declension noun.
2This paragraph is also in other lexica; references at Photius alpha160 Theodoridis. ↩
3Herodotus 6.61.1. ↩
4Homer, Iliad 21.221. In its only other uses in Homer, Odyssey 16.243 and 3.227, it is used in the phrase a)/gh m' e)/xei 'shock holds me'. It is necessary there to replace its synonyms qa/mbos and se/bas to suit the metre. Mette translates it, "Gefuehl, dass der Gespraechspartner etwas Ausserordentliches, das Mass Ueberschreitendes tut oder sagt" ("the feeling that the other person in the conversation is doing or saying something extraordinary that oversteps the limits"). ↩
5The latter word is certainly related to the verb a)/gnumi 'break', probably different from the root for amazement at that which breaks the limits, underlying the headword.

Linked from1 entry

ε580Ἔκπληξιςastonishment, consternation[Meaning] fear.

Neighbouring entries

α210Ἀγείραςcripple, beggar α211Ἀγείρειcollects α212Ἄγηawe, curse, charm; breaking α213Ἀγηγέρατοthey had gathered α214Ἀγηλατεῖνto drive out, to drive out a curse

Revision history5 revisions · last 15 Dec 2014

15 Dec 2014cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
18 Aug 2013another note — David Whitehead
2 Jan 2012cosmetics — David Whitehead
2 May 2002Added grammatical and lexical comments to notes. Raised status — Robert Dyer
11 Feb 2001added notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
22 Oct 2000Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἄγη (Adler number alpha 212), trans. William Hutton, 22 Oct 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/212

Translation by William Hutton for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, Robert Dyer, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗