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Ἐπεγχανών · making faces at (ε 2027) · 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

Near ε2027

ε2023pressed down, pressed on
ε2024you were enlisted under, you had (something) inscribed upon
ε2025I acknowledge you, I register you
ε2026they inscribed, they enrolled
ε2027making faces at
ε2028lavished, was lavish
ε2029he adjudicated
ε2030they set themselves to
ε2031was putting on the god

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε2027

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Ἐπεγχανών

making faces at

Translated by Catharine Roth31 Aug 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

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1 note · 21 words

Translation

[Meaning he] mocking.
"Vengeful justice did not permit the arrogant and disdainful [boy] to make faces at the death of Meletos."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπεγχανών· καταγελάσας. οὐ μὴν ἡ τιμωρὸς δίκη τὸν ὑβριστὴν καὶ ὑπερόπτην εἴασεν ἐπεγχανεῖν τῷ τοῦ Μελήτου θανάτῳ.

Betacode

*)epegxanw/n: katagela/sas. ou) mh\n h( timwro\s di/kh to\n u(bristh\n kai\ u(pero/pthn ei)/asen e)pegxanei=n tw=| tou= *melh/tou qana/tw|.

Notes (1)

The headword (quoted from somewhere unidentifiable) is the aorist active participle of e)pegxa/skw, masculine nominative singular. (The quotation which follows presents the aorist active infinitive.) See related verbs at epsilon 172, epsilon 2670. This form of the verb appears nowhere else apart from the derivative entry of ps.-Zonaras 825, and the quotation here and at mu 497 are the only non-lexicographical examples of the verb in any form apart from Sophocles fr. 210.49 Radt.
1Aelian fr. 69 Hercher (72 Domingo-Forasté), quoted more fully at mu 497, probably via a lost part of the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.

Linked from2 entries

ε172Ἐγχανώνgaping (at)Meaning [one who is] laughing [at]. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "you will die gaping." And elsewhere [he writes]: "for he will not gape after us as generals for the city, but let him sail by himself to the crows."
ε2760Ἐπιχάνῃwould make faces at"He[A] ordered that he[B] be held onto, so that he[A] would not run away beyond the bounds of the camp and then come back alive and make faces at [them]." Meaning would [not] laugh at [them].

Neighbouring entries

ε2025Ἐπιγράφομαί σεI acknowledge you, I register you ε2026Ἐπεγράψαντοthey inscribed, they enrolled ε2027Ἐπεγχανώνmaking faces at ε2028Ἐπεδαψιλεύσατοlavished, was lavish ε2029Ἐπεδίκασεhe adjudicated

Revision history3 revisions · last 1 Oct 2012

1 Oct 2012Revised — David Whitehead
9 Sep 2007augmented primary note — David Whitehead
5 Sep 2007tweaked headword and translation, augmented and rearranged notes, added headword, set status — William Hutton
31 Aug 2007Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπεγχανών (Adler number epsilon 2027), trans. Catharine Roth, 31 Aug 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2027

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