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Κομψευόμενοι

boasting about, being clever about

Translated by Catharine Roth8 Jan 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 23 words
[Meaning they] making false pretenses.1 "Nevertheless they have been detected in the attempt [at] boasting about the name."2 The statement [is] about historiographers.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κομψευόμενοι· ἀλαζονευόμενοι. πεφώρανται δὲ ὅμως τῇ πείρᾳ κομψευόμενοι τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν. περὶ ἱστοριογράφων ὁ λόγος.

Betacode
*komyeuo/menoi: a)lazoneuo/menoi. pefw/rantai de\ o(/mws th=| pei/ra| komyeuo/menoi th\n e)pwnumi/an. peri\ i(storiogra/fwn o( lo/gos.

Notes (2)

  1. 1The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is present middle participle of komyeu/w, masculine nominative plural. ↩
  2. 2i.e. falsely appropriating it: Agathias, Histories preface 18. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 9 Apr 2013
  1. coding — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“boasting about, being clever about.” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 8 January 2009. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/2022>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/kappa/2022>.

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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