Ἐξεκώμασεν

went out revelling

Translated by William Hutton28 Feb 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

4 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] committed fornication.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐξεκώμασεν· ἐξεπόρνευσεν.

Betacode
*)ecekw/masen: e)cepo/rneusen. 

Notes

  1. = Hesychius epsilon3683, Lexica Segueriana 224.3, and (according to Adler) the Ambrosian Lexicon (1263).
    Outside lexicography, the headword -- third person singular, aorist indicative active, of e)kkwma/zw -- occurs only in Euripides, Andromache 603 (web address 1), and the specific pejorative meaning attached to it here is surely extrapolated from that context (where it refers to Helen's elopement with Paris). The scholia to the line assign it a wider array of possible meanings: e)cexw/rhsen, e)cwrxh/sato, e)cebakxeu/qh , ei)s ai)sxu/nhn metatra/ph ('departed', 'danced out', 'went on a bacchic frenzy' 'turned to shameful behavior').

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Revision history3 revisions · last 13 Jan 2015
  1. coding — Catharine Roth
  2. expanded note; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

“went out revelling.” Suda On Line. Tr. William Hutton. 28 February 2007. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1611>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/epsilon/1611>.

Translation by William Hutton for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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