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Ἐπίτευγμα · surpise-find, treasure-trove (ε 2673) · 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 ε2673

ε2669I delight in, I take pleasure in
ε2670they are entrusted
ε2671you have been ground up
ε2672having been inflamed
ε2673surpise-find, treasure-trove
ε2674I intend to come upon, I intend to find, I intend to luck into
ε2675arising
ε2676announce
ε2677builds a wall against

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε2673

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Ἐπίτευγμα

surpise-find, treasure-trove

Translated by Robert Dyer10 May 2003Vetting: high2 revisions

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1 note · 27 words

Translation

[Meaning] good luck.¹
"Amazed at the number of the inhabitants of Egypt and at the surprise-finds of its places, they grasped that it was a great empire."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπίτευγμα· ἐπιτυχία. οἱ δὲ θαυμάσαντες τὰ πλήθη τῶν κατοικούντων τὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ τὰ τῶν τόπων ἐπιτεύγματα διέλαβον μεγίστην ἡγεμονίαν εἶναι.

Betacode

*)epi/teugma: e)pituxi/a. oi( de\ qauma/santes ta\ plh/qh tw=n katoikou/ntwn th\n *ai)/gupton kai\ ta\ tw=n to/pwn e)piteu/gmata die/labon megi/sthn h(gemoni/an ei)=nai.

Notes (1)

[1] Likewise in other lexica, beginning with Hesychius epsilon5327. Both the headword, a neuter noun, and the gloss, an abstract feminine one, come from the verb e)pitugxa/nw (epsilon 2738, epsilon 2674, cf. epsilon 3781) for 'hitting the right spot' and usually means a 'lucky find, something great stumbled on by chance'; cf. its synonyms at kappa 2772, kappa 2756. LSJ chooses to translate it here as 'natural advantages' but thus misses the colour of the metaphor.
2Diodorus Siculus 33.28b.3.1-5, on the arrival of Scipio Aemilianus and other Roman ambassadors in Egypt around 138 BC (an embassy that gave rise to a century of jockeying to be the general to reduce the country to a Roman province). The passage actually ends "grasped that a great empire could be established if this kingdom succeeded in finding (the verb e)/tuxon in the genitive absolute construction, cf. tau 1147) worthy leaders."

Linked from5 entries

ε2674ἘπιτεύξομαιI intend to come upon, I intend to find, I intend to luck into[I intend to come upon] you.
ε2736Ἐπιτυχοῦσινto just any people; to those who happen to be there; to people of no consequence; to those who happen to succeed[Meaning] to worthless characters. "[...] concerning consuls not to decide lightly, as it was not right to entrust rule to just any people [sc. who might happen to be candidates], when such great dangers surrounded the…
ε2738ἘπιτυγχάνωI encounter, I happen on, I meet[Used] with a genitive.
ε3442Εὐερμίαgood fortune, a stroke of luck from Hermes[Meaning] lucky finding, success. Like dusermi/a, [meaning] failure. Hence they used to call chance discoveries "Hermes shared by all." Aelian [writes]: "Mithridates described the departure of Lucullus as a stroke of…
η647ΗὐμοίρησαI had good fortune.[Meaning] I succeeded.

Neighbouring entries

ε2671Ἐπιτέτριψαιyou have been ground up ε2672Ἐπιτετυφωμένονhaving been inflamed ε2673Ἐπίτευγμαsurpise-find, treasure-trove ε2674ἘπιτεύξομαιI intend to come upon, I intend to find, I intend to luck into ε2675Ἐπιτείλαςarising

Revision history2 revisions · last 21 Oct 2012

21 Oct 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
11 May 2003added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
10 May 2003Translated — Robert Dyer

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπίτευγμα (Adler number epsilon 2673), trans. Robert Dyer, 10 May 2003. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2673

Translation by Robert Dyer 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 ↗