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Ἄσμενος · glad (α 4188) · 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 α4188

α4184Askonios Paidianos, Asconius Pedianus
α4185Askraian, Ascraean
α4186song, warp
α4187I celebrate, I take pleasure in
α4188glad
α4189solecism-free, without solecisms
α4190I do harm
α4191incorporeal, bodiless
α4192Asopos, Asopus

Suda/Α alpha/α4188

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Ἄσμενος

glad

Translated by Catharine Roth14 Feb 2001Vetting: high8 revisions

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2 notes · 27 words

Translation

[Meaning] rejoicing, [reacting] with pleasure, eagerly.¹
Also [sc. attested is] a)smene/stata ["most gladly"] meaning most eagerly. "[He] having accepted the challenge most gladly."²
Also found is a)smenai/tata.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄσμενος· χαίρων, ἡδέως, προθύμως. καὶ Ἀσμενέστατα, ἀντὶ τοῦ προθυμότατα. ἀσμενέστατα τὴν πρόκλησιν ἀποδεδεγμένος. λέγεται καὶ Ἀσμενέστατα.

Betacode

*)/asmenos: xai/rwn, h(de/ws, proqu/mws. kai\ *)asmene/stata, a)nti\ tou= proqumo/tata. a)smene/stata th\n pro/klhsin a)podedegme/nos. le/getai kai\ *)asmene/stata.

Notes (2)

[1] LSJ entry at web address 1. This word occurs in a Homeric formula fu/gen a)/smenos e)k qana/toio (see Homer, Iliad 20.350 with scholion; Homeric text at web address 2). The traditional view, reflected in the second gloss here, was that the word was related to h(du/s and h(/domai (root *swād-). But Wackernagel suggested that it might be an archaic participle from a zero-grade of the root *nes- seen in ne/omai and no/stos, cf. nu 133, nu 134, nu 500, nu 501. For the semantic development from "returning from death" to "happy," see Frame (1978) 24-28.
2Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
3The transmitted text senselessly repeats a)smene/stata. Clearly a variant is needed, and the one given here (noted but not adopted by Adler) was culled by Gaisford from Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica 18.10.

References

Douglas Frame, The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic. Yale UP 1978.
Charles de Lamberterie, “L’adjectif grec a)/smenos: étymologie et histoire du mot,” in Hommage à Jacqueline de Romilly. L’empreinte de son oeuvre, eds. Marc Fumaroli, Jacques Jouanna, Monique Trédé, and Michel Zink. Actes de colloque (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Paris, 2014. English translation at web address 3.
Wackernagel, Jacob. Vermischte Beiträge zur griechischen Sprachkunde. Basel 1897.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 3 classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu

Linked from2 entries

α4187ἈσμενίζωI celebrate, I take pleasure in[Used] with a dative. "Welcoming [their] destruction indeed, and led astray by the promise, they were captured by the Persian [army]."
α4208Ἀσπαστοίwelcome, welcomed[Meaning] glad [men], god-like [men]. But in Callimachus [one finds] a)spastu/s ["welcome"], [genitive] a)spastu/os, that is, a friendly greeting.

Neighbouring entries

α4186ᾎσμαsong, warp α4187ἈσμενίζωI celebrate, I take pleasure in α4188Ἄσμενοςglad α4189Ἀσολοίκωςsolecism-free, without solecisms α4190ἌσωI do harm

Revision history8 revisions · last 26 Nov 2017

26 Nov 2017expanded note, added bibliography — Catharine Roth
25 Nov 2017added bibliography — Catharine Roth
1 Sep 2015tweak — Catharine Roth
1 Sep 2015cosmetics; another keyword — David Whitehead
22 Jan 2015coding — Catharine Roth
25 Apr 2012tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
16 May 2011cosmetics — Catharine Roth
26 Aug 2002supplemented translation; added note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
14 Feb 2001Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἄσμενος (Adler number alpha 4188), trans. Catharine Roth, 14 Feb 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/4188

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