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Ἐπιβόημα · call, cry, shout (ε 2237) · 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 ε2237

ε2233they have come upon
ε2234covering, mantle, patch
ε2235bar
ε2236bar
ε2237call, cry, shout
ε2238thought, principle, impost, penalty, fine
ε2239plan, project
ε2240fine
ε2241able to be solved, soluble, solvable

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε2237

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Ἐπιβόημα

call, cry, shout

Translated by Catharine Roth15 Sep 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

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1 note · 38 words

Translation

Thucydides [writes]: "but he, whether [because of] the cry or whether something else had suddenly occurred to him, led the army back."¹ That is, an exclamation.
Also [sc. attested is the related participle] e)pibow/menos ["calling [upon]"], meaning inviting/invoking.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπιβόημα· Θουκυδίδης· ὁ δὲ εἴτε τὸ ἐπιβόημα εἴτε καὶ αὐτὸ ἄλλο τι ἢ κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ δόξαν ἐξαίφνης, τὸ στράτευμα ἀπῆγε. τουτέστιν ἐπιφώνημα. καὶ Ἐπιβοώμενος, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπικαλούμενος.

Betacode

*)epibo/hma: *qoukudi/dhs: o( de\ ei)/te to\ e)pibo/hma ei)/te kai\ au)to\ a)/llo ti h)\ kata\ to\ au)to\ do/can e)cai/fnhs, to\ stra/teuma a)ph=ge. toute/stin e)pifw/nhma. kai\ *)epibow/menos, a)nti\ tou= e)pikalou/menos.

Notes (1)

[1] An approximation of Thucydides 5.65.3 (web address 1): King Agis of Sparta is warned by an old Spartan soldier not to take unnecessary risks in the prelude to the Battle of Mantineia.
2Evidently quoted from somewhere -- perhaps again Thucydides: 6.16.6. (Hesychius epsilon4654 has a parallel entry for e)pibow=ntai, perhaps extracted from Thucydides 7.69.2.) For the verb cf. epsilon 2245, epsilon 2246, epsilon 2247, epsilon 2248, epsilon 2249.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from2 entries

ε2246Ἐπιβοώμενοιinvoking[Meaning they] calling as witnesses. "[...] striking their own heads and stretching out their hands and invoking the gods."
ε2248Ἐπιβωσάμενοςhaving invoked[e)pibwsa/menos is the same as] e)pibohsa/menos, [meaning] having called upon.

Neighbouring entries

ε2235Ἐπιβλήςbar ε2236Ἐπιβλήτηςbar ε2237Ἐπιβόημαcall, cry, shout ε2238Ἐπιβολήthought, principle, impost, penalty, fine ε2239Ἐπιβολήplan, project

Revision history3 revisions · last 10 Oct 2012

10 Oct 2012tweaked n.2 etc. — David Whitehead
23 Oct 2007augmented n.1; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
16 Sep 2007augmented n.2; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 Sep 2007Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπιβόημα (Adler number epsilon 2237), trans. Catharine Roth, 15 Sep 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2237

Translation by Catharine Roth 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 ↗