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Ἐπιβύσας · having stopped up (ε 2257) · Suda

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ε2253I pour water on, I rain on
ε2254after-an-ox
ε2255he was sitting on a hide
ε2256stopping up
ε2257having stopped up
ε2258marriage-connexion
ε2259exults in
ε2260elated
ε2261consequences, after-symptoms

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε2257

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Ἐπιβύσας

having stopped up

Translated by Ioannis Doukas3 Sep 2007Vetting: high4 revisions

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2 notes · 28 words

Translation

[Meaning] having filled full, having freighted. As Homer [says]: "stopped-up with adorned thread".¹ Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "having stopped up the mouth [sic] of the orators with coins".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπιβύσας· ἐμπλήσας, γεμίσας. ὡς Ὅμηρος· νήματος ἀσκητοῖο βεβυσμένον. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· τὸ στόμ' ἐπιβύσας κέρμασι τῶν ῥητόρων.

Betacode

*)epibu/sas: e)mplh/sas, gemi/sas. w(s *(/omhros: nh/matos a)skhtoi=o bebusme/non. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: to\ sto/m' e)pibu/sas ke/rmasi tw=n r(hto/rwn.

Notes (2)

The headword (extracted from the Aristophanes passage quoted below) is aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb e)pibu/w. See also epsilon 2256; cf. beta 592 and Hesychius s.vv. bu/sas, e)mbu/sas, bebusme/nh, bebusme/non and ps.-Zonaras s.vv. bebusme/na, be/busto, bebusme/nos, bu/ousi.
1Homer, Odyssey 4.134 (web address 1); see Eustathius ad loc.; also quoted in Photius s.v. kro/khn nh/qein le/gousin and Etymologicum Magnum s.vv. nh=ma, para/buston. ↩
2Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 379 (web address 2), with scholia; also quoted in Etymologicum Magnum s.v. e(kato/mbh; cf. Acharnians 463 (web address 3) quoted in beta 224 and sigma 952.

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Linked from1 entry

ε2256Ἐπιβύσαντεςstopping up[Meaning they] covering over, protecting. Procopius [writes]: "covering over the gullies with earth, they divert the water." Also [sc. attested is the adjective] a)kro/bustos ["tip-stuffed"], [meaning] having a tip that…

Neighbouring entries

ε2255Ἐπὶ βύρσης ἐκαθέζετοhe was sitting on a hide ε2256Ἐπιβύσαντεςstopping up ε2257Ἐπιβύσαςhaving stopped up ε2258Ἐπιγαμβρείαmarriage-connexion ε2259δοτικῇexults in

Revision history4 revisions · last 27 Jan 2016

27 Jan 2016coding — David Whitehead
10 Oct 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
9 Sep 2007augmented primary note; more keywords — David Whitehead
3 Sep 2007cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
3 Sep 2007Translated — Ioannis Doukas

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπιβύσας (Adler number epsilon 2257), trans. Ioannis Doukas, 3 Sep 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2257

Translation by Ioannis Doukas 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 ↗