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Ἐπαμησάμενος · having heaped on (earth) (ε 1948) · Suda

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Near ε1948

ε1944having wandered over
ε1945in succession
ε1946battlements
ε1947coping (stone)
ε1948having heaped on (earth)
ε1949Epaminondas, Epameinondas
ε1950to bring aid
ε1951to equivocate
ε1952to put back again

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε1948

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Ἐπαμησάμενος

having heaped on (earth)

Translated by David Whitehead1 Mar 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

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Translation

[Meaning he] having stirred [it] up. Herodotus [sc. uses the word].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπαμησάμενος· ἀνακινήσας. Ἡρόδοτος.

Betacode

*)epamhsa/menos: a)nakinh/sas. *(hro/dotos.

Notes

Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. From glosses on Herodotus 8.24.1 (web address 1), where the headword -- aorist participle of e)pama/omai, masculine nominative singular -- is used of Xerxes burying his Thermopylae dead.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

ε1946Ἐπάλξειςbattlements ε1947Ἐπαλξίτηςcoping (stone)ε1948Ἐπαμησάμενοςhaving heaped on (earth)ε1949ἘπαμινώνδαςEpaminondas, Epameinondas ε1950Ἐπαμῦναιto bring aid

Revision history4 revisions · last 19 Jan 2016

19 Jan 2016Revised — David Whitehead
28 Sep 2012Revised — David Whitehead
2 Mar 2006augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
1 Mar 2006augmented note, added link, set status — Catharine Roth
1 Mar 2006Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπαμησάμενος (Adler number epsilon 1948), trans. David Whitehead, 1 Mar 2006. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1948

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