Ὄπις

[divine] oversight

Translated by Catharine Roth11 Feb 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

2 words

Translation

[Meaning] attention.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὄπις· ἡ ἐπιστροφή.

Betacode
*)/opis: h( e)pistrofh/. 

Notes

  1. The headword -- apparently from the same root as o)/yomai, o)/pwpa (omicron 479) -- is used of divine vengeance and (less often) divine favor; also of human respect for the gods. By folk etymology it was connected with o)/pisqen, as the gloss here suggests (literally "turning about").
    Similar glosses in ps.-Herodian, the Ambrosian Lexicon (according to Adler), ps.-Zonaras, a scholion on Homer, Iliad 16.388 (see web address 1), and Hesychius s.vv. o)/pida (omicron999) and o)/pin (omicron1005).

References


P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 (Paris 2009) 779
Kaufmann-Bühler, Hermes 84 (1956) 285

External resources

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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Dec 2014
  1. coding — Catharine Roth
  2. tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“[divine] oversight.” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 11 February 2010. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/omicron/455>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/omicron/455>.

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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