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Ἐνέπεσε · fell on, befell (ε 1245) · 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 ε1245

ε1241innovated
ε1242innovated
ε1243I was fixed on
ε1244was sprinkling on
ε1245fell on, befell
ε1246in ear-shot
ε1247they were kindling, I was kindling
ε1248a claim on confiscated property
ε1249to make a claim on confiscated property

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε1245

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Ἐνέπεσε

fell on, befell

Translated by Catharine Roth13 Apr 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

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2 notes · 29 words

Translation

[Meaning it] happened, occurred. Polybius [writes]: "a certain impulse fell on Scipio and¹ a perplexity, whether he should engage and fight in single combat with the barbarian [sc. chief]."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐνέπεσε· συνέβη, ἐγένετο. Πολύβιος· ἐνέπεσε δέ τις ὁρμὴ τῷ Σκιπίωνι καὶ διαπόρησις, εἰ δεῖ συμβαλεῖν καὶ μονομαχῆσαι πρὸς τὸν βάρβαρον.

Betacode

*)ene/pese: sune/bh, e)ge/neto. *polu/bios: e)ne/pese de/ tis o(rmh\ tw=| *skipi/wni kai\ diapo/rhsis, ei) dei= sumbalei=n kai\ monomaxh=sai pro\s to\n ba/rbaron.

Notes (2)

The headword is aorist indicative active of the compound verb e)mpi/ptw (cf. epsilon 1011), third person singular. It is probably (though not demonstrably) extracted from the quotation which follows.
1i.e. but (the 'impulse' being to fight). ↩
2Polybius 35.5.1 (preserved only here), on P.Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus at Intercatia (Spain: Strabo 3.4.13, etc.) in 151 BCE; cf. Livy epitome 48 and other references to this famous incident in Walbank's commentary (III 648).

Linked from2 entries

α2273Ἀνεννόητονinconceivable, without conception[Meaning] untaught, unversed, unpracticed. "It is not necessary to face danger and dice with death, [a course of action] without conception of battle and how barbarians behave." Or a)nenno/htoi, [meaning those] having…
ε1238Ἐνεόςdumb; Eneos[Meaning] speechless, mute, awe-struck, toothless, sluggish, absent-minded. Xenophon [writes]: "to the servants, as if mute, they showed what needed to be done." "Such an earthquake befell [them] during the night that…

Neighbouring entries

ε1243ἘνεπάρηνI was fixed on ε1244Ἐνέπασσενwas sprinkling on ε1245Ἐνέπεσεfell on, befell ε1246Ἐν ἐπηκόῳin ear-shot ε1247Ἐνεπίπρωνthey were kindling, I was kindling

Revision history3 revisions · last 11 Jan 2016

11 Jan 2016tweaked tr; expanded notes; another keyword — David Whitehead
24 Aug 2012Revised — David Whitehead
13 Apr 2007tweaked tr; augmented notes — David Whitehead
13 Apr 2007Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐνέπεσε (Adler number epsilon 1245), trans. Catharine Roth, 13 Apr 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1245

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