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Εὐχά · vow (ε 3819) · Suda

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Near ε3819

ε3815Euphron
ε3816well-formed
ε3817natural ability, natural suitableness
ε3818I favour, I oblige, I thank
ε3819vow
ε3820beautifully-maned
ε3821Euchemos, Euchemus
ε3822dexterity
ε3823claims

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε3819

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Εὐχά

vow

Translated by Catharine Roth22 Apr 2005Vetting: high6 revisions

definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
ethics
religion
tragedy

2 notes · 37 words

Translation

*Eu)xai/ ["vows"] [are] promises.
"I will pay my vows to the Lord."¹
For eu)xh/ [is] a promise to a god of things which are piously consecrated, but proseuxh/ [is] a petition offered to the god with supplication.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Εὐχά. Εὐχαί· αἱ ὑποσχέσεις. τὰς εὐχάς μου τῷ κυρίῳ ἀποδώσω. Εὐχὴ γὰρ ἐπαγγελία θεῷ τῶν κατ' εὐσέβειαν ἀφιερουμένων, προσευχὴ δὲ δέησις μετὰ ἱκετηρίας τῷ θεῷ προσαγομένη.

Betacode

*eu)xa/. *eu)xai/: ai( u(posxe/seis. ta\s eu)xa/s mou tw=| kuri/w| a)podw/sw. *eu)xh\ ga\r e)paggeli/a qew=| tw=n kat' eu)se/beian a)fieroume/nwn, proseuxh\ de\ de/hsis meta\ i(kethri/as tw=| qew=| prosagome/nh.

Notes (2)

The unglossed headword (in mss FV only, Adler reports), nominative singular, is the Doric form for eu)xh/. It is very rarely attested, but see e.g. Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 657: filo/timos eu)xa/ (web address 1).
1Psalm 115.5 LXX. ↩
2cf. Etymologicum Gudianum and other lexica. ↩

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

ε3823Εὔχεταιclaims[Meaning he/she/it] boasts.

Neighbouring entries

ε3817Εὐφυΐαnatural ability, natural suitableness ε3818ΕὐχαριστῶI favour, I oblige, I thank ε3819Εὐχάvow ε3820Εὐχαίτηςbeautifully-maned ε3821ΕὔχεμοςEuchemos, Euchemus

Revision history6 revisions · last 16 Mar 2018

16 Mar 2018added link — Ronald Allen
19 Mar 2016expanded primary note; added a keyword — David Whitehead
18 Mar 2016cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
17 Mar 2016coding — David Whitehead
18 Nov 2012cosmetics — David Whitehead
24 Apr 2005augmented notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
22 Apr 2005Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Εὐχά (Adler number epsilon 3819), trans. Catharine Roth, 22 Apr 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/3819

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