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Ἔνη καὶ νέα · old and new (ε 1292) · 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

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ε1288goes in
ε1289they were giving way
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ε1291pledge, security
ε1292old and new
ε1293old and new
ε1294the day after tomorrow; the old
ε1295the day after tomorrow, the second day after
ε1296old-and-new

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε1292

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Ἔνη καὶ νέα

old and new

Translated by Antonella Ippolito7 Feb 2005Vetting: high10 revisions

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3 notes · 45 words

Translation

The so-called thirtieth [sc. day of the month]; e)/non [is] what is ancient,¹ and ne/on what is new.
In/on which such bloodshed would have occurred. In the present instance he says ["bloodshed"]² as [sc. Homer says] bro/ton ai(mato/enta["clotted blood"],³ meaning the blood of a murder.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἔνη καὶ νέα· ἡ τριακὰς καλουμένη. ἔνον τὸ παλαιὸν καὶ νέον τὸ νέον. ἐν ᾗ ἂν ὁ τοιοῦτος βρότος ἐγγένηται. νῦν ὡς βρότον αἱματόεντα τὸν φονικὸν σημαίνων λέγει.

Betacode

*)/enh kai\ ne/a: h( triaka\s kaloume/nh. e)/non to\ palaio\n kai\ ne/on to\ ne/on. e)n h(=| a)\n o( toiou=tos bro/tos e)gge/nhtai. nu=n w(s bro/ton ai(mato/enta to\n foniko\n shmai/nwn le/gei.

Notes (3)

The first part of this entry in also in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; see also Photius, Lexicon epsilon915.
See also epsilon 1293, epsilon 1296.
1cf. delta 1205, epsilon 1294, epsilon 1295, epsilon 1298, and LSJ at web address 1. ↩
2Bernhardy, recognizing this expression as Homeric (see next note), attributed this material to an unknown scholion (scholio cuidam). The source which the phrase h(=| a)\n o( toiou=tos bro/tos e)gge/nhtai stems from is Plato, Republic 566D; there, however, modern editions construe the noun not as bro/tos ("blood, gore") but differently-accented broto/s ("mortal"), and the phrase as a whole becomes "the city where such a mortal would have been born". Thus, the passage can easily be understood if the word bro/ton is integrated after e)gge/nhtai. It is also possible that two different entries have been combined here, one concerning "the thirtieth day of the month", the other related to the words e)n h(=|.
*nu=n as an equivalent of "in the present instance" or "in the example above" is common in scholia. ↩
3For this expression see Homer, Iliad 7.425, 14.7, 18.345 [schol. ad loc.: bro/ton ai(mato/enta: to\ u(po\ tou= fo/nou ai(=ma]; 23.41 [with schol. Il. 23.41a2].

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from6 entries

δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-signA [sign of] divine anger. "The thousand Scythians were present, more rapid than any Zeus-omen, whether a flash of light or a hurricane or a thunderbolt or a storm or a meteorite". Aternatively a dioshmi/a is an…
ε1293Ἔνη καὶ νέαold and newAmongst Athenians this was the name for what we call the thirtieth [day of the month], the new moon, because in these days it happens that the moon has both its end and its rising. It was then that they used to demand…
ε1294Ἔνηthe day after tomorrow; the old"To be present [again] on the e)/nh". That is on the third [sc. day]. "Do not put off to tomorrow or the day after." Some [say] 'to the 30th'. But Attic writers also call e)/nh the bygone [sc. cycle, etc.]. Demosthenes…
ε1295Ἔνηthe day after tomorrow, the second day afterThe third day of the [sc. new] moon. Aristophanes [writes]: "take courage, you will be on time even if you come the day after tomorrow." Meaning up to the third [day]. "For I know these people, voting quickly, but then,…
ε1296Ἔνην καὶ νέανold-and-new[This] is what Athenians call the day we call the thirtieth, from its being the end of the preceding month and the beginning of the next. But Polemon maintains that once he called it Demetrias in honor of Demetrius the…
ε1298Ἐνήday after tomorrowWith acute accent on the last syllable [it means] new.

Neighbouring entries

ε1290Ἐνέχραυεused to dash ε1291Ἐνέχυρονpledge, security ε1292Ἔνη καὶ νέαold and new ε1293Ἔνη καὶ νέαold and new ε1294Ἔνηthe day after tomorrow; the old

Revision history10 revisions · last 17 Mar 2017

17 Mar 2017tweaked note — Catharine Roth
18 Nov 2014coding — Catharine Roth
26 Aug 2012another note — David Whitehead
14 Mar 2011tweaks to tr; expanded n.2, for clarity; another keyword — David Whitehead
6 Mar 2007Revised — Antonella Ippolito
20 Dec 2005betacode cosmetics — Catharine Roth
13 Feb 2005modified links — Catharine Roth
8 Feb 2005supplied headword; tweaked translation; another keyword; extensive cosmetics — David Whitehead
7 Feb 2005Revised — Antonella Ippolito
7 Feb 2005Revised — Antonella Ippolito
7 Feb 2005Translated — Antonella Ippolito

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἔνη καὶ νέα (Adler number epsilon 1292), trans. Antonella Ippolito, 7 Feb 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1292

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