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Καταδύς · having submerged (himself) (κ 539) · Suda

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κ535crash, thud
κ536is plunged
κ537I oppress, I rule harshly over
κ538submerging
κ539having submerged (himself)
κ540having sunk the ships, having disabled the ships
κ541hiding-places
κ542rank-to-rank, by rank
κ543they were clothing

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Καταδύς

having submerged (himself)

Translated by Catharine Roth19 Apr 2008Vetting: high6 revisions

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1 note · 22 words

Translation

[Meaning he] having been hidden, having been covered;¹ "but he, having sunk into every Odysseian and tangled scheme, was sent to Gaianas."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Καταδύς· κατακρυβείς, κατακαλυφθείς· ὁ δὲ καταδὺς ἐς πᾶσαν Ὀδύσσειον καὶ πολύπλοκον μηχανὴν διεπέμπετο πρὸς Γαϊάναν.

Betacode

*katadu/s: katakrubei/s, katakalufqei/s: o( de\ katadu\s e)s pa=san *)odu/sseion kai\ polu/plokon mhxanh\n diepe/mpeto pro\s *gai+a/nan.

Notes (1)

[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is an intransitive aorist participle of katadu/nw, masculine nominative singular; cf. kappa 538, kappa 540.
2Bernhardy attributed this quotation to Eunapius; cf. omicron 63 (not Adler's '163', which she later corrected). The name Gaianas is attested as that of a rival to Theodosius for the patriarchate of Alexandria in 535: see James Allan Evans' DIR entry for the empress Theodora at web address 1.

External resources

Web address 1 roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu

Linked from3 entries

κ536Καταδύεταιis plunged[Used] with a dative. [Meaning he/she/it] is sunk, is hidden. "[sc. Belisarius' wife Antonina] was eager, however, to conceal this activity, being plunged in her own practices [and sc. ashamed of them]..."
κ538Καταδύνονταsubmerging[Meaning] concealing.
κ540Καταδύσαντες τὰς ναῦςhaving sunk the ships, having disabled the shipsIn Thucydides [sc. this expression is used] also in reference to damaging but not submerging.

Neighbouring entries

κ537ΚαταδυναστεύωI oppress, I rule harshly over κ538Καταδύνονταsubmerging κ539Καταδύςhaving submerged (himself)κ540Καταδύσαντες τὰς ναῦςhaving sunk the ships, having disabled the ships κ541Καταδύσειςhiding-places

Revision history6 revisions · last 27 Apr 2019

27 Apr 2019another cross-reference — Catharine Roth
28 Nov 2014expanded note — Catharine Roth
8 Sep 2014tweaked headword — Catharine Roth
2 Feb 2014expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
31 Jan 2013Revised — David Whitehead
20 Apr 2008more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
19 Apr 2008Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Καταδύς (Adler number kappa 539), trans. Catharine Roth, 19 Apr 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/539

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 ↗