Skip to content

Search the Suda

Browse Topics Random About

The Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient world, in English and Greek.

Read

Browse Α–Ω
Topics
Random entry

Project

About & credits
Report an error
Original SOL ↗

Follow

@ReadSuda
@readsuda.org

A new reader for the Suda On Line translation, made by 200+ volunteer translators and editors. Greek text after Adler’s edition. Translations © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA.

Free · non-commercial · no ads · no accounts[email protected]Maintained with ❤️ by Rick Lithan

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Ἐλεφαίρετο · used to destroy (ε 817) · Suda

Letters

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 ε817

ε813Eleusios, Eleusius
ε814to make an elephant out of a fly
ε815ivory-hilted
ε816you are no different from an elephant
ε817used to destroy
ε818to cheat
ε819peeled off
ε820towards the marshy glens
ε821marsh-walking

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε817

← Previous entry,ε816 Next entry,ε818 →

Ἐλεφαίρετο

used to destroy

Translated by Catharine Roth8 Mar 2006Vetting: high3 revisions

definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
ethics
geography
mythology
poetry
+1
- zoology

8 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] used to deceive, used to harm.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐλεφαίρετο· ἐπλανᾶτο, ἐβλάπτετο.

Betacode

*)elefai/reto: e)plana=to, e)bla/pteto.

Notes

Similarly in other lexica. The headword is imperfect, third person singular, of e)lefai/romai. It is quoted from Hesiod, Theogony 330 on the Nemean Lion (web address 1); cf. the scholia there.
See LSJ s.v. II for the verb (which otherwise means to cheat) in this sense; and cf. epsilon 818.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

ε818Ἐλεφῆραιto cheat[Meaning] to harm, to deceive.

Neighbouring entries

ε815Ἐλεφαντόκωπονivory-hilted ε816Ἐλέφαντος οὐδὲν διαφέρειςyou are no different from an elephant ε817Ἐλεφαίρετοused to destroy ε818Ἐλεφῆραιto cheat ε819Ἔλεψενpeeled off

Revision history3 revisions · last 17 Dec 2015

17 Dec 2015expanded note — David Whitehead
13 Aug 2012more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
9 Mar 2006tweaked headword and tr; augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
8 Mar 2006Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐλεφαίρετο (Adler number epsilon 817), trans. Catharine Roth, 8 Mar 2006. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/817

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