Εὐφημησμός Εὐφήμου στόμα φροντίδος
religious silence
Translated by Ioannis Doukas11 Sep 2007Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
"Mouth of religiously-silent thought", [meaning its] voice.1 For [the word] mouth [can also mean] the voice. Homer [writes]: "war's mouth".2 And Sophocles [writes]: "of a bronze-mouthed bell".3 The sense [is], they uttering the voice of religiously-silent thought. Which is [to say], giving vent to words in holy manner with much care. So [the term] eu)/fhmos denotes the silent; for the [verb] eu)fhmei=n is applied to keeping silence.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Εὐφημησμός. Εὐφήμου στόμα φροντίδος, ἡ φωνή. στόμα γὰρ ἡ φωνή. Ὅμηρος· πολέμου στόμα. καὶ Σοφοκλῆς· χαλκοστόμου κώδωνος. ὁ δὲ νοῦς, τὴν φωνὴν τῆς εὐφήμου φροντίδος ἱέντες. ὅ ἐστι μετὰ φροντίδος πολλῆς εὐφήμως τὴν φωνὴν ἀφιέντες. εὔφημον οὖν τὴν σιωπηλήν· τὸ γὰρ εὐφημεῖν ἐπὶ τοῦ σιωπᾶν τίθεται.
Betacode
*eu)fhmhsmo/s. *eu)fh/mou sto/ma fronti/dos, h( fwnh/. sto/ma ga\r h( fwnh/. *(/omhros: pole/mou sto/ma. kai\ *sofoklh=s: xalkosto/mou kw/dwnos. o( de\ nou=s, th\n fwnh\n th=s eu)fh/mou fronti/dos i(e/ntes. o(/ e)sti meta\ fronti/dos pollh=s eu)fh/mws th\n fwnh\n a)fie/ntes. eu)/fhmon ou)=n th\n siwphlh/n: to\ ga\r eu)fhmei=n e)pi\ tou= siwpa=n ti/qetai.
Notes (4)
- The unglossed headword noun, usually spelled↩
eu)fhmismo/s , is found written with two etas only here (where the alphabetization supports the spelling) and in Herodian, Partitiones 264.3. (The usual spelling appears five times, all in the accusative singular, in other Suda entries: alpha 1053, epsilon 1086, epsilon 3580, mu 51, and upsilon 112).- 1Quoted (with just a change from
eu)fa/mou toeu)fh/mou ) from Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 132 (web address 1); the entry draws on the scholia thereto. ↩- 2Homer, Iliad 19.313 (web address 2); cf. also 10.8 (
ptole/moio me/ga sto/ma ), cited by Adler. ↩- 3Sophocles, Ajax 17 (web address 3): cf. kappa 2220. ↩
- 4LSJ s.v.
eu)fhme/w (web address 4). See also epsilon 3449, epsilon 3753, epsilon 3792. - 1Quoted (with just a change from
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 4 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from1 entry
Neighbouring entries
Revision history7 revisions · last 13 Mar 2018
- tidy up — Ronald Allen
- added cross-references to primary note — Ronald Allen
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.2; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- internal rearrangement; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added cross-references, augmented note, set status — Catharine Roth
- tweaked note, added keywords — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas