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Ἐπιτήθη · great-grandmother (ε 2691) · 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

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ε2687deserving, suitable
ε2688suitable, agreeable
ε2689suitably
ε2690I apply myself to, I employ myself in
ε2691great-grandmother
ε2692you impose
ε2693dispatches
ε2694Epitimedes, Epitimides
ε2695criticism, objection

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Ἐπιτήθη

great-grandmother

Translated by Catharine Roth11 Dec 2007Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 45 words

Translation

[Meaning] the mother of the grandmother,¹ so that the th/qh ["grandmother"] is the mother of the mother or father, and the e)pith/qh is the mother of the father['s mother] and the mother['s mother]. Thus Isaeus [uses the word] in the [speech] In Reply To Dorotheos.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπιτήθη· ἡ τῆς τήθης μήτηρ, ὥστε εἶναι τὴν μὲν τήθην μητρὸς ἢ πατρὸς μητέρα, τὴν δὲ ἐπιτήθην τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς μητέρα καὶ τῆς μητρὸς μητέρα. οὕτως Ἰσαῖος ἐν τῷ πρὸς Δωρόθεον.

Betacode

*)epith/qh: h( th=s th/qhs mh/thr, w(/ste ei)=nai th\n me\n th/qhn mhtro\s h)\ patro\s mhte/ra, th\n de\ e)pith/qhn th\n tou= patro\s mhte/ra kai\ th=s mhtro\s mhte/ra. ou(/tws *)isai=os e)n tw=| pro\s *dwro/qeon.

Notes (2)

= Aelius Dionysius epsilon60, Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. Also basically = Photius, Lexicon epsilon1756, and Etymologicum Magnum 366.11, though Photius gives the final part as follows th\n de\ e)pithqh\n, th=s tou= patro\s mhte/ra kai\ th=s mhtro\s mhte/ra (with the first mhte/ra being obelized as corrupt by Theodoridis); and Gaisford's text of the Etym.Magn. entry has th\n de\ e)pithqh\n, th=s tou= patro\s mhte/ros kai\ th=s mhtro\s mhte/ra. Of these, the Etym.Magn. text seems the most legible and logical, and is the basis for the suppletions in the translation above. Yet the odd deployment of definite articles and the use of the rarer genitive form mhte/ros in close proximity to the canonical mhtro/s leaves one suspicious. Meier (1863: 121) suggested emending to mhtro/s. Part of the confusion may stem from the fact that these kinship terms can be highly fluid, and the headword is attested as meaning great-great-grandmother as well (Compare Pollux 3.18, and LSJ s.v. at web address 1). Nauck (1963: 142 n.35) tentatively attributed some of this to Aristophanes of Byzantium, but see the comments of Slater in Nauck-Slater (1986: 74-5).
1For th/qh, grandmother, see tau 472. ↩
2Isaeus fr. 35 Sauppe.

References

Meier, M.H.E. 1863. Commentationis Andocidiae sextae particulae III-XII sive de lexicis rhetoricis (Opuscula academica II). Halle.
Nauck, A., ed. 1963 [1848]. Aristophanis Byzantii grammatici fragmenta. Hildesheim [Halle].
Nauck, A. (ed.) and W. Slater (post-ed.) 1986. Aristophanis Byzantii fragmenta. Berlin.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

ε2689Ἐπιτηδείωςsuitably ε2690ἘπιτίθεμαιI apply myself to, I employ myself in ε2691Ἐπιτήθηgreat-grandmother ε2692Ἐπιτίθηςyou impose ε2693Ἐπιτίθησινdispatches

Revision history5 revisions · last 1 Feb 2016

1 Feb 2016coding and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
21 Oct 2012cosmetics — David Whitehead
12 Dec 2007replaced information I accidently deleted — William Hutton
11 Dec 2007Augmented and rearranged notes, added link, tweaks and cosmetics, set status — William Hutton
11 Dec 2007augmented headword and notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
11 Dec 2007Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπιτήθη (Adler number epsilon 2691), trans. Catharine Roth, 11 Dec 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2691

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗