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Ἐνέχραυε · used to dash (ε 1290) · 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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ε1286fastened with shackles
ε1287sending in
ε1288goes in
ε1289they were giving way
ε1290used to dash
ε1291pledge, security
ε1292old and new
ε1293old and new
ε1294the day after tomorrow; the old

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Ἐνέχραυε

used to dash

Translated by D. Graham J. Shipley18 Jan 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

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Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] used to strike the body. Herodotos [writes]: "[...] the body, being rather crazy.¹ For whenever he met [one] of the Spartiates, he used to dash their face with his sceptre". [He is] speaking about Kleomenes the Spartiate.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐνέχραυε. τὸ σῶμα ἐπέπληττεν. Ἡρόδοτος· τὸ σῶμα ἐόντα ὑπομαργότερον. ὅκως γὰρ ἐντύχοι Σπαρτιητέων ἐνέχραυε τὸ πρόσωπον τῷ σκήπτρῳ. περὶ Κλεομένους τοῦ Σπαρτιάτου λέγων.

Betacode

*)ene/xraue. to\ sw=ma e)pe/plhtten. *(hro/dotos: to\ sw=ma e)o/nta u(pomargo/teron. o(/kws ga\r e)ntu/xoi *spartihte/wn e)ne/xraue to\ pro/swpon tw=| skh/ptrw|. peri\ *kleome/nous tou= *spartia/tou le/gwn.

Notes

[1] The context is Herodotos 6.75.1, but the Suda's opening words of the quotation, to\ sw=ma, do not occur in the original (text at web address 1) and have evidently strayed in by repetition from the primary gloss. The story is that of the madness of king Kleomenes I of Sparta, whom Herodotos here describes as e)o/nta kai\ pro/teron u(pomargo/teron, 'being even before now rather crazy' (cf. 3.29, 3.145, where the adjective is applied to Kambyses and to the brother of Maiandrios of Samos). The next sentence in the Suda is slightly inaccurate also, and should have read o(/kws ga\r tew=| e)ntu/xoi *Spartihte/wn, e)ne/xraue e)s to\ pro/swpon to\ skh=ptron, 'For whenever he met any of the Spartiates, he used to dash his sceptre into their face'. The translation above, with its unorthodox use of the verb 'to dash', reflects the Suda's inaccuracy.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

ε1288Ἔνεισινgoes in ε1289Ἐνεχώρουνthey were giving way ε1290Ἐνέχραυεused to dash ε1291Ἐνέχυρονpledge, security ε1292Ἔνη καὶ νέαold and new

Revision history6 revisions · last 17 Mar 2017

17 Mar 2017tweaked betacode — Catharine Roth
11 Jan 2016expansion to note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
26 Aug 2012more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
18 Jan 2002cosmetics — Catharine Roth
18 Jan 2002added link — Catharine Roth
18 Jan 2002augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
18 Jan 2002Translated — D. Graham J. Shipley

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐνέχραυε (Adler number epsilon 1290), trans. D. Graham J. Shipley, 18 Jan 2002. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1290

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