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Ἐπαλλάξαντες · passing over (ε 1940) · 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 ε1940

ε1936Epaktrian territory
ε1937skiff
ε1938epaktrokeles, skiff-speedy
ε1939was managing
ε1940passing over
ε1941interweavings
ε1942about to defend, intending to defend
ε1943smearing over [with oil]
ε1944having wandered over

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε1940

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Ἐπαλλάξαντες

passing over

Translated by William Hutton21 Aug 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

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3 words

Translation

[Meaning they] (?)selecting.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπαλλάξαντες· ἐπιλέξαντες.

Betacode

*)epalla/cantes: e)pile/cantes.

Notes

Likewise in Photius, but the gloss is an error. The headword itself -- aorist active participle, masculine nominative plural, of e)palla/ssw -- occurs in Homer, Iliad 13.359 (web address 1) where, in an image about warfare, it refers to "passing over" one end of a rope over the other to make a knot. This is glossed in Apollonios Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon (70.26, cf. 75.17, 129.18; Hesychius epsilon4131) with e)piple/cantes ('intertwining'), among other words. Surely this is the ultimate origin of the Suda's nonsensical e)pile/cantes ('selecting'), an error already in Lexica Segueriana 226.6, and repeated in ps.-Zonaras.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

ε1938Ἐπακτροκέληςepaktrokeles, skiff-speedy ε1939Ἐπαλαμᾶτοwas managing ε1940Ἐπαλλάξαντεςpassing over ε1941Ἐπαλλάξειςinterweavings ε1942Ἐπαλεξήσωνabout to defend, intending to defend

Revision history3 revisions · last 28 Aug 2013

28 Aug 2013expanded note; cosmetic — David Whitehead
28 Sep 2012Revised — David Whitehead
21 Aug 2007expanded parts of note; more keywords — David Whitehead
21 Aug 2007Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπαλλάξαντες (Adler number epsilon 1940), trans. William Hutton, 21 Aug 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1940

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 ↗