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Ἰσχάνει · holds back, restrains (ι 709) · Suda

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Near ι709

ι705knowing
ι706Istros, Ister
ι707I held back, I restrained
ι708Ischandros, Ischander
ι709holds back, restrains
ι710restraining
ι711dried fig
ι712restrain!
ι713Iskhenos, Ischenos, Ischenus

Suda/Ι iota/ι709

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Ἰσχάνει

holds back, restrains

Translated by Catharine Roth24 Apr 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
epic

3 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] prevents.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἰσχάνει· κωλύει.

Betacode

*)isxa/nei: kwlu/ei.

Notes

Same or similar entry in other lexica. The headword is taken to be quoted from Homer (Iliad 14.387 or 17.747).
See also iota 707, iota 710.

Linked from1 entry

ι707ἼσχαναI held back, I restrained[Meaning] I whittled, I thinned. Aristophanes [writes]: "I held back my art with little verses and walking and white beets;" meaning [with] amusements, as for an invalid. I personally gave juice of chatter from books…

Neighbouring entries

ι707ἼσχαναI held back, I restrained ι708ἼσχανδροςIschandros, Ischander ι709Ἰσχάνειholds back, restrains ι710Ἰσχανόωσαrestraining ι711Ἰσχάςdried fig

Revision history4 revisions · last 16 Jan 2013

16 Jan 2013Revised — David Whitehead
4 May 2006added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
24 Apr 2006x-ref — David Whitehead
24 Apr 2006augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
24 Apr 2006Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἰσχάνει (Adler number iota 709), trans. Catharine Roth, 24 Apr 2006. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/iota/709

Translation by Catharine Roth 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 ↗