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Διάμετρος · diameter (δ 653) · 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

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δ649to engage in battle
δ650hesitates
δ651measured-out day
δ652of the wall through the middle
δ653diameter
δ654having cut through
δ655you were to persist, you would persist
δ656to cut through
δ657cutting through

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Διάμετρος

diameter

Translated by David Whitehead19 Oct 2000Vetting: high13 revisions

definition
historiography
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military affairs
+2
- rhetoric
- science and technology

2 notes · 41 words

Translation

A kind of geometrical [term].
Eunapius [writes]: "the diametrically opposed shafts making a kind of cross at the tongue with the conjunction of the counter-posed arrowheads."¹
But² Dinarchus calls the residue from something that has been fairly measured out a "diametron."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Διάμετρος· γεωμετρικόν τι εἶδος. Εὐνάπιος· ὡς κατά τινας διαμέτρους κεραίας κεχιῶσθαι τὴν γλῶτταν ταῖς ἀντιτύποις συμβολαῖς τῶν ἀκίδων. Δείναρχος δὲ διάμετρον λέγει τὸ ἐλλεῖπον ἀπὸ τοῦ δικαίως μετρηθέντος.

Betacode

*dia/metros: gewmetriko/n ti ei)=dos. *eu)na/pios: w(s kata/ tinas diame/trous kerai/as kexiw=sqai th\n glw=ttan tai=s a)ntitu/pois sumbolai=s tw=n a)ki/dwn. *dei/narxos de\ dia/metron le/gei to\ e)llei=pon a)po\ tou= dikai/ws metrhqe/ntos.

Notes (2)

[1] Eunapius fr. 100 FHG (= 272.19-20 Dindorf); but these words also appear in Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 2.6.2, as de Boor pointed out. Theophylact's story concerns a Roman soldier found still alive, but with gruesome wounds, at the Battle of Solachon (cf. alpha 141 note) in 586; cf. de Boor (79), Whitby (50), and cross-references to related entries at alpha 141.
2The source now becomes Harpokration s.v. ↩
3Dinarchus fr. XIX.3 Conomis.

References

C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418 n.2
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)

Linked from1 entry

α141Ἀγάμενοςadmiring, wondering at, marveling at[Meaning someone] being amazed at. "Admiring this man for his good courage they let him ride on the horse."

Neighbouring entries

δ651Διαμεμετρημένη ἡμέραmeasured-out day δ652Διὰ μέσου τείχουςof the wall through the middle δ653Διάμετροςdiameter δ654Διαμησάμενοςhaving cut through δ655Διαμείνῃςyou were to persist, you would persist

Revision history13 revisions · last 19 Feb 2025

19 Feb 2025tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth — Ronald Allen
16 Feb 2025fixed note number — Catharine Roth
14 Feb 2025tweaked n.1 — Ronald Allen
7 Feb 2025expanded n.1, added to bibliography, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
26 Oct 2015 — David Whitehead
11 Jul 2015coding — Catharine Roth
5 Jul 2011tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
26 Dec 2009bibliography — Catharine Roth
1 Oct 2005added keyword — Catharine Roth
5 Sep 2003Cosmetics — Elizabeth Vandiver
5 Sep 2002added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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19 Oct 2000Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Διάμετρος (Adler number delta 653), trans. David Whitehead, 19 Oct 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/653

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