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Ἔγκειται · bears down upon (ε 96) · 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 ε96

ε92to mix in
ε93I have shat in [my clothes]
ε94have dashed against(?)
ε95I undertook everything for Timoleon
ε96bears down upon
ε97is acting the Cilician
ε98they would yearn to be pregnant
ε99of appeal, under appeal
ε100with complaints (?)

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε96

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Ἔγκειται

bears down upon

Translated by William Hutton15 Jun 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 43 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] applies pressure, is extremely desirous.¹
"But Lakhares, when he ran away and was about to be caught, let go the darics bit by bit to the ones bearing down upon him; finally, by means of this ruse, he escaped the enemy."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἔγκειται· ἐπίκειται, λίαν ἐπιθυμητικῶς ἔχει. Λαχάρης δέ, ὁπηνίκα ἀπέδρα, ἁλώσεσθαι μέλλων, τῶν δαρεικῶν κατ' ὀλίγους τοῖς ἐγκειμένοις μεθείς, τελεώτατα τῷ δελεάματι ἐξέφυγε τὸ δυσμενές.

Betacode

*)/egkeitai: e)pi/keitai, li/an e)piqumhtikw=s e)/xei. *laxa/rhs de/, o(phni/ka a)pe/dra, a(lw/sesqai me/llwn, tw=n dareikw=n kat' o)li/gous toi=s e)gkeime/nois meqei/s, telew/tata tw=| delea/mati e)ce/fuge to\ dusmene/s.

Notes (2)

The entry brings together glosses on the third-person singular, present, of the verb e)/gkeimai (reckoned to be quoted from Demosthenes 18.199) and a quotation which includes the present participle (in the dative plural) of the same verb.
1Same or similar glossing, variously, in other lexica. ↩
2Adler disputes ('falso') Asmus' designation of this quotation as part of fr. 84 of Damascius, Life of Isidore (and it is duly ignored in Zintzen's collection of the fragments). She rightly compares Polyaenus 3.7.1, where just this ruse enables the Athenian general Lachares to flee Athens when it was captured by Demetrios Poliorketes in c.295 BCE; see OCD(4) s.v. Lachares. (For darics see delta 72, delta 73.) There is confusion between this L. and his namesake the Roman-era sophist, for whom see lambda 165 (where part of Damascius fr. 84 Asmus [140 Zintzen] does belong).

Neighbouring entries

ε94Ἐγκεχρέαhave dashed against(?)ε95Ἐγκεχείρικα πάντα ΤιμολέοντιI undertook everything for Timoleon ε96Ἔγκειταιbears down upon ε97Ἐγκιλικίζεταιis acting the Cilician ε98Ἐγκισσήσωσιthey would yearn to be pregnant

Revision history5 revisions · last 3 Aug 2014

3 Aug 2014updated a ref — David Whitehead
25 Jul 2012another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 Jun 2005corrected my footnote numbering — David Whitehead
15 Jun 2005more x-refs — David Whitehead
15 Jun 2005augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 Jun 2005Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἔγκειται (Adler number epsilon 96), trans. William Hutton, 15 Jun 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/96

Translation by William Hutton 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 ↗