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Ἕψια · puns (ε 4064) · Suda

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Near ε4064

ε4060boiler, boiling-pot
ε4061boiled
ε4062they were currying
ε4063amusement, recreation
ε4064puns
ε4065let them amuse themselves
ε4066one must amuse oneself
ε4067hepsiatimon
ε4068lightened, stripped, unarmed

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε4064

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Ἕψια

puns

Translated by Ioannis Doukas27 Jun 2007Vetting: high5 revisions

comedy
daily life
definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
poetry
rhetoric

4 notes · 28 words

Translation

[Meaning] games from words;¹ also [sc. attested is the related adjective] philepsios,² [meaning] one who is playful;³ but with a smooth breathing philepsios is someone fond of speaking.⁴

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἕψια· τὰ ἀπὸ λόγων παίγνια· καὶ φιλέψιος, ὁ φιλοπαίγμων· ψιλούμενον δὲ φιλολόγος ἐστὶν ὁ φιλέψιος.

Betacode

*(/eyia: ta\ a)po\ lo/gwn pai/gnia: kai\ file/yios, o( filopai/gmwn: yilou/menon de\ filolo/gos e)sti\n o( file/yios.

Notes (4)

Same or similar material in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.459, where the related verb occurs.
1The primary headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) is plural of a neuter noun connected with epsilon 4063 (q.v.). ↩
2For file/yios, see also Hesychius s.v. It is also found as a personal name in classical Athens: see Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 177 and Demosthenes 24.134, the latter generating phi 316. Note also the proverb *file/yios o(/de (to\n tro/pon) in Gregorius 3.29 and Apostolius 17.86. ↩
3phi 400. ↩
4cf. generally Hesychius s.v. filolo/gos (two entries). The Suda's 'with a smooth breathing' obviously cannot refer to the beginning of the word and must instead pertain to the aspiration of the epsi- element; but even so it is odd (cf. alpha 3112).

Linked from2 entries

ε4063Ἑψίαamusement, recreation[Meaning] company.
ε4067ἙψιάτιμονhepsiatimonA cognitive game.

Neighbouring entries

ε4062Ἔψηχονthey were currying ε4063Ἑψίαamusement, recreation ε4064Ἕψιαpuns ε4065Ἑψιάσθωνlet them amuse themselves ε4066Ἑψιατέονone must amuse oneself

Revision history5 revisions · last 10 Jan 2015

10 Jan 2015coding — Catharine Roth
21 Nov 2012more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
29 Jun 2007betacode cosmetics — Catharine Roth
28 Jun 2007tweaks and cosmetics in all departments — David Whitehead
28 Jun 2007tweaked translation and note, set status — Catharine Roth
27 Jun 2007Translated — Ioannis Doukas

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἕψια (Adler number epsilon 4064), trans. Ioannis Doukas, 27 Jun 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/4064

Translation by Ioannis Doukas 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 ↗