Skip to content

Search the Suda

Browse Topics Random About

After Suda On Line, the collaborative English translation of the Suda. Texts are © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA. A non-commercial project.

About & credits Browse Topics Original SOL

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Ἀκάμαντα · untiring (α 790) · Suda

Letters

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 α790

α786soft-flowing
α787stinging-nettle
α788stinging nettle, sea-anemone
α789ill-omened
α790untiring
α791Akamantis and Akamas, Acamantis and Acamas
α792untiring
α793Akamatios, Acamatius
α794tireless fire

Suda/Α alpha/α790

← Previous entry,α789 Next entry,α791 →

Ἀκάμαντα

untiring

Translated by Jennifer Benedict10 Jan 2000Vetting: high8 revisions

agriculture
botany
definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
epic
poetry
+2
- religion
- zoology

1 note · 12 words

Translation

[Meaning one who/which is] inexhaustible.
"Untiring destroyer of grape shoots, a boar".¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀκάμαντα· ἀκαταπόνητον. βοτρύων ἀκάμαντα φυτῶν λωβήτορα κάπρον.

Betacode

*)aka/manta: a)katapo/nhton. botru/wn a)ka/manta futw=n lwbh/tora ka/pron.

Notes (1)

The headword adjective (related to kappa 286) is in the accusative case. It might be extracted from the quotation given, though there are numerous other possibilities, beginning with Homer.
1Greek Anthology 6.168.1 (Paul the Silentiary); again at lambda 723. See further extracts from this epigram, in which Xenophilus kills the boar and dedicates its hide to Pan, at alpha 748 and epsilon 1100.

Linked from3 entries

α748Ἀθώπευτονunflatterable, rough[Meaning] unpamperable, unmerciful. "He hung up the hide of a rough beast for Pan". He is speaking about a boar. "For I fall in with these sorts of troubles".
α792ἈκάματαuntiringMeaning tirelessly and incessantly; or not wearily. Sophocles [writes]: "I am awaiting him untiring, childless, wretched."
ε1100Ἐνναέταιinhabitants[Meaning] residents. In the Epigrams: "the bold inhabitant of towering reeds." He is speaking about a boar.

Neighbouring entries

α788Ἀκαλήφηstinging nettle, sea-anemone α789Ἀκαλλιέρητονill-omened α790Ἀκάμανταuntiring α791Ἀκαμαντίς καὶ ἈκάμαςAkamantis and Akamas, Acamantis and Acamas α792Ἀκάματαuntiring

Revision history8 revisions · last 30 Jul 2023

30 Jul 2023corrected cross-reference n.1 — Ronald Allen
30 Jul 2023expanded n.1, added cross-references, added keyword — Ronald Allen
17 Jun 2020tweaked note — Catharine Roth
3 May 2015Revised — David Whitehead
22 Jan 2012another note and keyword — David Whitehead
20 Jun 2009cosmetics, keyword — Catharine Roth
23 May 2002added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
25 Jan 2001modified translation; added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
10 Jan 2000Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀκάμαντα (Adler number alpha 790), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 10 Jan 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/790

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