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Ἀελπτέοντες · having no hope (α 549) · Suda

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α545whirlwind
α546storm-swift mares
α547storm-footed
α548un-hoping, despairing
α549having no hope
α550beyond expectation, unexpected, unhoped-for
α551unexpected [things]
α552ever-flowing
α553ever-flowing

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Ἀελπτέοντες

having no hope

Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 Apr 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

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2 notes · 16 words

Translation

[Meaning they] having no confidence.¹
Herodotus [writes]: "they having no hope that the Greeks would prevail."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀελπτέοντες· ἀνελπιστοῦντες. Ἡρόδοτος· ἀελπτέοντες τοὺς Ἕλληνας ὑπερβαλέσθαι.

Betacode

*)aelpte/ontes: a)nelpistou=ntes. *(hro/dotos: a)elpte/ontes tou\s *(/ellhnas u(perbale/sqai.

Notes (2)

Denominative verb from a)/elptos; occurs only in the participle.
1Same glossing in Hesychius and Etym.Magn. 20.23. Latte in his Hesychius edition regards the participle as coming from the source that the Suda goes on to quote (see next note); however, it also occurs in Homer, Iliad 7.310, where a scholiast glossed it with ou)k e)lpi/zontes. ↩
2Herodotus 7.168.2, on the Corcyrean rejection of the Aegean Greeks' request for help against the Persian invasion: web address 1.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

α547Ἀελλόπουςstorm-footed α548Ἀελπέωνun-hoping, despairing α549Ἀελπτέοντεςhaving no hope α550Ἄελπτονbeyond expectation, unexpected, unhoped-for α551Ἄελπταunexpected [things]

Revision history7 revisions · last 26 Apr 2015

26 Apr 2015 — David Whitehead
18 Dec 2013tweaked note, upgraded link — Catharine Roth
11 Jan 2012augmented notes and keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
1 May 2002added keyword — David Whitehead
27 Sep 2000Added note and link. — Catharine Roth
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11 Apr 2000Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀελπτέοντες (Adler number alpha 549), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 11 Apr 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/549

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