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Ἐγκάναξον · slosh in! (ε 73) · 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

Near ε73

ε69they sit upon, they position
ε70to wallow in bodily affections
ε71I reproach
ε72having adorned himself [with]
ε73slosh in!
ε74fruit-containing, fruitful
ε75athwart, oblique
ε76bowels, entrails
ε77stones were laid in

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε73

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Ἐγκάναξον

slosh in!

Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo11 May 2005Vetting: high4 revisions

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4 notes · 30 words

Translation

[Meaning] shake in, bring/add, pour in!¹ The word is a compound.² Aristophanes [writes]: "come now, slosh in [wine] for me and plenty of it".³ [Meaning] swallow, gulp down, drink out.⁴

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐγκάναξον· ἔνσεισον, προσένεγκε, ἔγχεον. πεποίηται δὲ ἡ λέξις. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἴθι νῦν ἄκρατον ἐγκάναξόν μοι πολύν. ἕλκυσον, ἐκρόφησον, ἔκπιε.

Betacode

*)egka/nacon: e)/nseison, prose/negke, e)/gxeon. pepoi/htai de\ h( le/cis. *)aristofa/nhs: i)/qi nu=n a)/kraton e)gka/naco/n moi polu/n. e(/lkuson, e)kro/fhson, e)/kpie.

Notes (4)

The headword (taken from the Aristophanic line quoted) is the aorist imperative of the rare verb e)gkana/ssw; see also Euripides, Cyclops 152. It implies a large quantity quickly poured (and drunk).
1Glosses from the scholia vetera to the Aristophanic line about to be quoted. Also Hesychius epsilon188, the same headword glossed with some of these same terms: e)gka/nacon: e)/gxee, e)/kpie. See also Photius, Lexicon epsilon36: e)gkana/cai: e)gxe/ai oi)=non. ↩
2cf. the same scholion: 'e)gka/nacon, from a reed basket [kanou=n]. But some apply it to a throng, from a sharp sound [kanaxh/], that is, pour it in noisily'. In the same sense, and with similar words, see also Etymologicum Magnum 310.1. ↩
3Aristophanes, Knights 105. ↩
4Extra synonyms added here and in the parallel entry in ps.-Zonaras; the last of them is also in Hesychius epsilon188.

Neighbouring entries

ε71ἘγκαλοῦμαιI reproach ε72Ἐγκαλλωπισαμένουhaving adorned himself [with]ε73Ἐγκάναξονslosh in!ε74Ἔγκαρπονfruit-containing, fruitful ε75Ἐγκάρσιονathwart, oblique

Revision history4 revisions · last 4 Dec 2015

4 Dec 2015another gloss — David Whitehead
24 Jul 2012cosmetics — David Whitehead
12 May 2005cosmeticules — Catharine Roth
12 May 2005tweaked headword and translation; modified notes; added a keyword — David Whitehead
11 May 2005Translated — Stefano Sanfilippo

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐγκάναξον (Adler number epsilon 73), trans. Stefano Sanfilippo, 11 May 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/73

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