Νεικέσαι
to revile
Translated by Ioannis Doukas30 Dec 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
In Homer [it means] to slander, but not to judge.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νεικέσαι· παρ' Ὁμήρῳ τὸ λοιδορῆσαι, ἀλλ' οὐ τὸ κρῖναι.
Betacode
*neike/sai: par' *(omh/rw| to\ loidorh=sai, a)ll' ou) to\ kri=nai.
Notes
- The headword is aorist infinitive of the verb
neike/w . Attested only here, it is perhaps quoted from somewhere, though the semantic distinction made in the gloss comes from Homeric scholia on another part of this verb; see the scholia to Iliad 7.161 (nei/kess' ) and to Iliad 24.29 (nei/kesse ).
See also nu 284, nu 285, nu 286 and nu 287; cf. Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon and Photius nu93 Theodoridis (s.v.nei=kos ), Etymologicum Gudianum s.v.neikw= and Etymologicum Magnum s.v.neikei/h|si . Hesychius nu226 s.v.nei/kesen accepts both meanings.
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