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

Ἡγεμών · guide (η 42) · 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 η42

η38plundered and pillaged
η39presidency of a jurycourt
η40presidency of a jurycourt
η41authoritative [part]
η42guide
η43guide
η44leader of a symmory
η45celebrated, led
η46to gather together

Suda/Η eta/η42

← Previous entry,η41 Next entry,η43 →

Ἡγεμών

guide

Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo11 Jul 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

dialects, grammar, and etymology
geography
historiography
history
military affairs

2 notes · 26 words

Translation

[h(gemw/n], [genitive] h(gemo/nos, [vocative] w)= h(gemw/n.¹
"They requested guides for the road to dispatch together with them, in order that they might guide them against Sirmium²."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἡγεμών, ἡγεμόνος καὶ ὦ ἡγεμών. ἡγεμόνας ἐδέοντο τῆς ἀτραποῦ σφίσι ξυναποστεῖλαι, ὡς ἂν αὐτοὶ ἡγήσοιντο τούτοις ἐπὶ τὸ Σίρμιον.

Betacode

*(hgemw/n, h(gemo/nos kai\ w)= h(gemw/n. h(gemo/nas e)de/onto th=s a)trapou= sfi/si cunapostei=lai, w(s a)\n au)toi\ h(gh/sointo tou/tois e)pi\ to\ *si/rmion.

Notes (2)

[1] A paradigm to illustrate the third declension in nasal form in which the last vowel, long in the nominative and vocative, becomes short in the genitive. According to Adler it has a parallel in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The origin could be one of the several grammatical treaties compiled in the imperial and Byzantine periods; e.g. Theodosius, who in peri\ kli/sews tw=n ei)s wn o)cuto/nwn (Concering declension of the oxytones ending in -wn) uses the term h(gemw/n in nominative and genitive. Theoretically the vocative should have omicron rather than omega, but neither form seems to be attested before Byzantine times.
2The ancient city of Sirmium is present-day Sremska Mitrovica in the NW of Serbia-Montenegro. Barrington Atlas Map 21 grid B5. During the third-fourth centuries it was the chief city of Lower Pannonia. See generally V. Popovic (ed.), Sirmium (Belgrade 1971). ↩
3This unidentifiable quotation probably narrates an episode of the seventh-century history of Pannonia, when the Avars occupied it. See generally Menander Protector (to whom Bernhardy attributed this fragment).

Linked from1 entry

η43Ἡγεμώνguide[Meaning] the one guiding the way. Xenophon [writes]: "and they bound the guide and handed him over to them".

Neighbouring entries

η40Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίουpresidency of a jurycourt η41Ἡγεμονικόνauthoritative [part]η42Ἡγεμώνguide η43Ἡγεμώνguide η44Ἡγεμὼν συμμορίαςleader of a symmory

Revision history5 revisions · last 12 Mar 2015

12 Mar 2015typo — Catharine Roth
15 Dec 2012expanded note — Catharine Roth
3 Dec 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
9 Jul 2011tweaks — Catharine Roth
13 Jul 2005augmented notes; modified keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
11 Jul 2005Translated — Stefano Sanfilippo

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἡγεμών (Adler number eta 42), trans. Stefano Sanfilippo, 11 Jul 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/eta/42

Translation by Stefano Sanfilippo 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 ↗