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Διαλέγουσαν · enlarging, picking open (δ 625) · 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 δ625

δ621to divide by lot
δ622through a whirlwind
δ623to converse
δ624I converse
δ625enlarging, picking open
δ626they might converse with women
δ627dialectic
δ628speech, conversation, discourse
δ629I discourse subtly

Suda/Δ delta/δ625

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Διαλέγουσαν

enlarging, picking open

Translated by Catharine Roth29 Nov 2000Vetting: high8 revisions

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4 notes · 27 words

Translation

[Meaning her] building over.¹ For le/gein [sc. can apply to] to building.²
Also [sc. attested is the imperative] diale/gou, [meaning] dig through!³ Thucydides [sc. uses the word].⁴

Greek original · Adler’s text

Διαλέγουσαν· διοικοδομοῦσαν. λέγειν γὰρ τὸ οἰκοδομεῖν. καὶ Διαλέγου, διορύττου. Θουκυδίδης.

Betacode

*diale/gousan: dioikodomou=san. le/gein ga\r to\ oi)kodomei=n. kai\ *diale/gou, dioru/ttou. *qoukudi/dhs.

Notes (4)

For this verb (LSJ entry at web address 1) see also delta 623, delta 624. The present headword -- its present active participle, feminine accusative singular -- is quoted from Aristophanes, Lysistrata 720: "[her] picking open the mouse-hole", sc. in the roof, to escape, but with the vagina as secondary meaning. Besides the hint in the scholia ad loc. (kakemfa/tws, "used in a vulgar way") see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 141 #155, and 168-9 #295 on the verb.
1An uncomprehending gloss (again at lambda 225), already in Photius. The scholiast's dioru/ttousan, "digging through", is what is needed; cf. n.3 below. ↩
2cf. lambda 225. At Homer, Odyssey 18.359, le/gein is used of picking up stones for building walls: see epsilon 77 (and n.4 below). ↩
3Hesychius similarly defines diale/cai by dioru/cai (aorist active infinitives). ↩
4Adler notes Dindorf's view that this 'Thucydides' refers to another gloss, and certainly it cannot relate to diale/gou; but epsilon 77 may provide the link.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

ε77Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοιstones were laid inMeaning were built in. And Homer [writes]: "and laying dry-stone walls."

Neighbouring entries

δ623Διαλέγεσθαιto converse δ624ΔιαλέγομαιI converse δ625Διαλέγουσανenlarging, picking open δ626Διαλέγοιντο γυναιξίνthey might converse with women δ627Διαλεκτικήdialectic

Revision history8 revisions · last 24 Oct 2015

24 Oct 2015augmented notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
29 Jun 2012more keywords — David Whitehead
10 Feb 2011more x-refs; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
24 Jul 2006modified nn.2 and 4; cosmetics — David Whitehead
26 Dec 2002changed to betacode — Catharine Roth
24 Dec 2002restorative cosmetics — David Whitehead
31 Mar 2001Revised — Catharine Roth
26 Mar 2001modified headword and translation; augmented note; added keywords — David Whitehead
29 Nov 2000Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Διαλέγουσαν (Adler number delta 625), trans. Catharine Roth, 29 Nov 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/625

Translation by Catharine Roth 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 ↗