[1] The headword is accusative case of the noun
e)pi/lusis. The best-known instance --
Aeschylus,
Seven Against Thebes↗ 134:
e)pi/lusin fo/bwn, e)pi/lusin di/dou -- means 'release' and so makes a bad fit with this glossing synonym. The gloss would be more appropriate to
e)ph/lusin "approach, assault," which is homophonous with
e)pi/lusin and also more suitable to the passage quoted. Cf.
epsilon 2176,
epsilon 2177, and especially
epsilon 2178 (the last a fragment of
Menander Protector). But
e)pi/lusin is required by alphabetical order here in the Suda.
2Attributed by Charles Burney (1757-1818) to Menander Protector, and accepted as such by Blockley: his fr. 35.1 (244-245). Blockley notes a possible connection between this fragment and his fr. 35.2 (q.v. delta 1193); cf. Blockley (287, note 329).