Μεγαλαυχούμενοι

boasting, bragging

Translated by Christopher Blackwell24 Aug 2001Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 27 words

Translation

[Meaning those who are] being arrogant. "You who are still boasting about the things you are doing, go perform1 hot deeds against the enemy a second time!"2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μεγαλαυχούμενοι· κατεπαιρόμενοι. ἔτι μεγαλαυχούμενοι ἐπὶ τοῖς πραττομένοις θερμότατα ἄγειν τὸ δεύτερον ἐπὶ τοὺς πολεμίους.

Betacode
*megalauxou/menoi: katepairo/menoi. e)/ti megalauxou/menoi e)pi\ toi=s prattome/nois qermo/tata a)/gein to\ deu/teron e)pi\ tou\s polemi/ous. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1Unless this is a fragment of a sentence, I am taking a)/gein as an infinitive used as a second-person imperative; see Smyth §2013 (web address 1). ↩
  2. 2Quotation unidentifiable, but apparently from a military narrative. ↩

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Revision history7 revisions · last 24 Jul 2020
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
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  3. Revised — David Whitehead
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  5. upgraded link — Catharine Roth
  6. more keywords — David Whitehead
  7. added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  8. Translated — Christopher Blackwell

Cite this entry

“boasting, bragging.” Suda On Line. Tr. Christopher Blackwell. 24 August 2001. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/mu/355>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/mu/355>.

Translation by Christopher Blackwell 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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