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Ἐπέκλυσεν · washed over (ε 2040) · 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 ε2040

ε2036beyond
ε2037they proclaimed
ε2038was sending heralds
ε2039spun for
ε2040washed over
ε2041was going wild, began to go wild
ε2042I extend over
ε2043very little, to a very little extent
ε2044(he/she) occupied, seized

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Ἐπέκλυσεν

washed over

Translated by William Hutton6 Sep 2007Vetting: high7 revisions

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2 notes · 33 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] cleansed.¹
Or meaning [he/she/it] flowed over.
"Such and so many evils washed over [them] that it was gold to them and a kind of red-letter day² that the barbarians had prevailed."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπέκλυσεν· ἐκαθέρισεν. ἢ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπέρρευσεν. τοιαῦτα καὶ τοσαῦτα ἐπέκλυσε κακά, ὥστε χρυσὸς ἦν αὐτοῖς καὶ λευκή τις ἡμέρα κρατῆσαι τοὺς βαρβάρους.

Betacode

*)epe/klusen: e)kaqe/risen. h)\ a)nti\ tou= e)pe/rreusen. toiau=ta kai\ tosau=ta e)pe/kluse kaka/, w(/ste xruso\s h)=n au)toi=s kai\ leukh/ tis h(me/ra krath=sai tou\s barba/rous.

Notes (2)

[1] = Synagoge epsilon606 and Photius epsilon1410, which have e)kaqa/risen as the gloss rather than the e)kaqe/risen found here (and in one ms. of the Synagoge). The latter is a form of kaqeri/zw, a rare variant for kaqari/zw, which is itself of late Greek alternative for kaqai/rw. For the headword verb e)piklu/zw see also epsilon 2395. Its form here -- third person singular, aorist indicative active (matched by the gloss) -- must be quoted from somewhere (not necessarily the passage given later in the entry; there are numerous other possibilities).
2On the idiomatic expression leukh\ h(me/ra (lit. 'white day'), see lambda 322, lambda 323, tau 868. ↩
3Attributed to Eunapius by Hemsterhuis and Boissonade (fr. 49 Müller; Blockley, Eunapius fr. 47.[3]).

References

Blockley, R.C. The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Vol. II. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983.

Linked from1 entry

ε2405ἘπίκουροςEpicurus, EpikourosThis man assigned no importance to religion; but there were three brothers [sc. of his], who died in the most pitiful way, struck down by countless diseases. As for Epicurus, although still young, he was not able to…

Neighbouring entries

ε2038Ἐπεκηρυκεύετοwas sending heralds ε2039Ἐπέκλωσενspun for ε2040Ἐπέκλυσενwashed over ε2041Ἐπεκώμαζενwas going wild, began to go wild ε2042ἘπεκτείνομαιI extend over

Revision history7 revisions · last 22 Jan 2016

22 Jan 2016betacode typo — David Whitehead
3 Jun 2015updated and augmented references in n. 1 — William Hutton
2 Jun 2015Tweaked translation; added Blockley cite. — Aaron Baker
6 Oct 2012expanded n.1; tweaks — David Whitehead
31 Mar 2009added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
9 Sep 2007more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
6 Sep 2007augmented note, set status — Catharine Roth
6 Sep 2007Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπέκλυσεν (Adler number epsilon 2040), trans. William Hutton, 6 Sep 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2040

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