Ἐπενήνεον
were piling on, were piling up
Translated by William Hutton4 Mar 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning they] were putting in with.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐπενήνεον· συγκατετίθεντο.
Betacode
*)epenh/neon: sugkateti/qento.
Notes
- A confused entry. The glossing verb
sugkateti/qento is drawn from the Homeric scholia, but as a gloss fore)pih/|neon ('they were praising', 'they were agreeing to'), rather than fore)penh/neon ('were piling on/up'). See the scholia to Homer, Iliad 3.461 (web address 1) and 4.380 (web address 2), and also epsilon 2186 where the gloss is quoted correctly.
Fueling the lexicographer's confusion may be the fact that although the middle-voice forms ofsugkatati/qhmi regularly mean 'put in with' in the sense of 'get behind' or 'join in supporting', active forms of the same verb can mean 'put (something) together with', and hence might serve as an appropriate gloss for a verb that means 'pile up'. Also, Homer sometimes usese)ph/|neon in tmesis (e)pi\ d' h)/|neon epsilon 2295), including at Iliad 3.461, the scholia to which may be the source for the gloss (cf. Odyssey 12.294, 12.352). In manuscript this might appear asepidhneon , which could conceivably be misread ase)pinh/neon ore)penh/neon . The headword does occur in Homer, e.g. Iliad 7.428 (web address 3).