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Ἐπαλαμᾶτο · was managing (ε 1939) · Suda

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ε1935imposed oath
ε1936Epaktrian territory
ε1937skiff
ε1938epaktrokeles, skiff-speedy
ε1939was managing
ε1940passing over
ε1941interweavings
ε1942about to defend, intending to defend
ε1943smearing over [with oil]

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Ἐπαλαμᾶτο

was managing

Translated by William Hutton21 Aug 2007Vetting: high2 revisions

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3 notes · 34 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] was devising, was crafting. For the crafts [are called] 'hands'.¹
Also [sc. attested is] '[he/she/it] managed',² [meaning] devised, conceived. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "so what did he manage as regards the barley-groats?"³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπαλαμᾶτο· ἐμηχανᾶτο, ἐτεχνάζετο. παλάμαι γὰρ αἱ τέχναι. καὶ Ἐπαλαμήσατο, ἐμηχανήσατο, ἐπενόησεν. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· τί οὖν πρὸς τἄλφιτ' ἐπαλαμήσατο;

Betacode

*)epalama=to: e)mhxana=to, e)texna/zeto. pala/mai ga\r ai( te/xnai. kai\ *)epalamh/sato, e)mhxanh/sato, e)peno/hsen. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: ti/ ou)=n pro\s ta)/lfit' e)palamh/sato;

Notes (3)

Glosses in this entry are similar to ones found in scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds (see note 3), though that cannot be the only source since the headword as such does not appear in that play. One of the few other attestations of the form of the headword (third person singular, imperfect indicative middle) is in a fragment of a text ascribed to Aelian (fr. 67 Hercher, 70d Domingo-Forasté), found at kappa 101. Generally cf. pi 40.
1The obvious etymological connection between pala/mai ('[palms of the] hands') and the headword is difficult to reproduce in English, although 'manage' does derive from Latin manus ('hand'); cf. pi 39, pi 40, pi 41, pi 48. ↩
2The aorist indicative middle, third person singular. It is this form, rather than the headword (the corresponding imperfect) that appears in the following quotation. ↩
3Aristophanes, Clouds 176 (web address 1); Strepsiades is asking how Socrates solved the problem of there being no supper.

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Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

ε1937Ἐπακτρίςskiff ε1938Ἐπακτροκέληςepaktrokeles, skiff-speedy ε1939Ἐπαλαμᾶτοwas managing ε1940Ἐπαλλάξαντεςpassing over ε1941Ἐπαλλάξειςinterweavings

Revision history2 revisions · last 27 Sep 2012

27 Sep 2012more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
21 Aug 2007another x-ref; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
21 Aug 2007Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπαλαμᾶτο (Adler number epsilon 1939), trans. William Hutton, 21 Aug 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1939

Translation by William Hutton 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 ↗