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Κομιδή · care, provision, conveyance, transport (κ 2000) · Suda

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Near κ2000

κ1996comets
κ1997gum
κ1998furlough, leave of absence
κ1999exactly
κ2000care, provision, conveyance, transport
κ2001attendance, attention, conveyance, provision
κ2002sap
κ2003attend [to]
κ2004obtains

Suda/Κ kappa/κ2000

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Κομιδή

care, provision, conveyance, transport

Translated by Catharine Roth20 Dec 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

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1 note · 30 words

Translation

[Meaning] return. Herodotus [sc. uses the word in that sense].¹
Also called [komidh/] is arrival, passage through.
Polybius [writes]: "[he] withdrew from the transport forward and from the whole attack."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κομιδή· ἡ ἀνάσωσις. Ἡρόδοτος. λέγεται δὲ καὶ ἡ ἄφιξις, ἡ δίοδος. Πολύβιος· τῆς εἰς τοὔμπροσθεν κομιδῆς καὶ τῆς ὅλης ἐπιβολῆς ἀπέστη.

Betacode

*komidh/: h( a)na/swsis. *(hro/dotos. le/getai de\ kai\ h( a)/ficis, h( di/odos. *polu/bios: th=s ei)s tou)/mprosqen komidh=s kai\ th=s o(/lhs e)pibolh=s a)pe/sth.

Notes (1)

[1] cf. gloss on Herodotus 4.134.2 (web address 1). See also kappa 2001.
2Polybius fr. 56 Büttner-Wobst.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from2 entries

κ1999Κομιδῆexactly[Meaning] very much, altogether, completely, absolutely, entirely, perfectly.
κ2001Κομιδήνattendance, attention, conveyance, provision[Meaning] care. And the orators called receiving some part of what is suitable komidh/.

Neighbouring entries

κ1998Κομιάτωνfurlough, leave of absence κ1999Κομιδῆexactly κ2000Κομιδήcare, provision, conveyance, transport κ2001Κομιδήνattendance, attention, conveyance, provision κ2002Κομίδιονsap

Revision history3 revisions · last 10 Mar 2013

10 Mar 2013upgraded link — Catharine Roth
10 Mar 2013Revised — David Whitehead
21 Dec 2008more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
20 Dec 2008Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κομιδή (Adler number kappa 2000), trans. Catharine Roth, 20 Dec 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/2000

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 ↗