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Ἡπατοσκοπία · liver (η 419) · Suda

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η417dawn
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η420feeble, infirm
η421they began to level
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Ἡπατοσκοπία

liver

Translated by Catharine Roth17 Sep 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

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2 notes · 35 words

Translation

Liver-inspecting. See under Persians.¹
Also [sc. attested is] 'liver-inspecting', [meaning] the dissection of the entrails, by which they used to foretell what would happen; for in dissecting they would observe certain signs in the entrails.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἧπαρ. Ἡπατοσκοπία. ζήτει ἐν τῷ Πέρσαι. καὶ Ἠπατοσκοπία, ἡ τῶν ἐγκάτων ἀνατομή, δι' ὧν προεμήνυον τὰ συμβησόμενα· ἀνατέμνοντες γὰρ σημεῖά τινα ἐθεώρουν ἐν τοῖς ἐγκάτοις.

Betacode

*(=hpar. *(hpatoskopi/a. zh/tei e)n tw=| *pe/rsai. kai\ *)hpatoskopi/a, h( tw=n e)gka/twn a)natomh/, di' w(=n proemh/nuon ta\ sumbhso/mena: a)nate/mnontes ga\r shmei=a/ tina e)qew/roun e)n toi=s e)gka/tois.

Notes (2)

The primary headword "liver" is unglossed. (The SOL headword, mistakenly, is the secondary one, "liver-inspecting".) On the declension of h)=par, see h)=mar at eta 283 and skw=r at sigma 690.
1'Persians' is a (rare) emendation by Adler for what the mss give as *Pe/rsh|, there being no such entry for the latter. However, pi 1367 is not an appropriate cross-reference; see rather (as Adler notes) mu 9. ↩
2Perhaps, Adler suggests, from a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus. ↩

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Neighbouring entries

η417Ἠώςdawn η418Ἡπαλύνθησανthey were softened η419Ἡπατοσκοπίαliver η420Ἠπεδανόςfeeble, infirm η421Ἠπέδιζονthey began to level

Revision history4 revisions · last 8 Sep 2018

8 Sep 2018Revised — Catharine Roth
8 Sep 2018expanded note — Catharine Roth
18 Dec 2012augmented notes; another keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
18 Sep 2006supplemented headword and tr; augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
17 Sep 2006Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἡπατοσκοπία (Adler number eta 419), trans. Catharine Roth, 17 Sep 2006. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/eta/419

Translation by Catharine Roth 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 ↗