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Ἐχέγγυος · secure, security-providing, trustworthy (ε 3981) · Suda

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ε3977atop
ε3978they were mixing
ε3979was lacking
ε3980secure, receiving a pledge of safety
ε3981secure, security-providing, trustworthy
ε3982come now
ε3983Echedemos, Echedemus
ε3984heaped
ε3985Echekratidas

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Ἐχέγγυος

secure, security-providing, trustworthy

Translated by Lauren Curtis8 Nov 2007Vetting: high5 revisions

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3 notes · 23 words

Translation

[Meaning] a secure guarantor;¹ one [who is considered] valuable because of [his] credit.²
In Thucydides [it means] someone/something strong, able to provide security.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐχέγγυος· ὁ ἀσφαλὴς ἐγγυητής· ὁ διὰ πίστεως ἄξιος. παρὰ δὲ Θουκυδίδῃ ἰσχυρόν, ἐγγυῆσαι δυνάμενον.

Betacode

*)exe/gguos: o( a)sfalh\s e)gguhth/s: o( dia\ pi/stews a)/cios. para\ de\ *qoukudi/dh| i)sxuro/n, e)gguh=sai duna/menon.

Notes (3)

The headword is a two-termination compound adjective which literally means 'having security'. For the less common passive sense of the headword ('receiving security'), see already epsilon 3980. For the related adjective e)/gguos ('reliable', 'giving security'), see epsilon 168.
1So already in Hesychius epsilon7589 (cf. more broadly epsilon7590 and epsilon7591), and elsewhere. ↩
2Both elements also in Photius, Lexicon epsilon2482; second one (only) in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. ↩
3Thucydides 3.46.1 (web address 1): Diodotus exhorts the Athenians not to trust in the death penalty 'as if it could provide security'.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

ε3980Ἐχέγγυονsecure, receiving a pledge of safety[Meaning] safe. "But just as you took [me as] a suppliant receiving a pledge of safety, rescue me and guard [me]."

Neighbouring entries

ε3979Ἐχάτιζενwas lacking ε3980Ἐχέγγυονsecure, receiving a pledge of safety ε3981Ἐχέγγυοςsecure, security-providing, trustworthy ε3982Ἔχε δήcome now ε3983ἘχέδημοςEchedemos, Echedemus

Revision history5 revisions · last 28 Mar 2018

28 Mar 2018cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
21 Nov 2014coding — Catharine Roth
20 Nov 2012tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
12 Nov 2007more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
9 Nov 2007added keyword, set status — Catharine Roth
8 Nov 2007Translated — Lauren Curtis

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐχέγγυος (Adler number epsilon 3981), trans. Lauren Curtis, 8 Nov 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/3981

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