Ὄπις
[divine] oversight
Translated by Catharine Roth11 Feb 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] attention.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὄπις· ἡ ἐπιστροφή.
Betacode
*)/opis: h( e)pistrofh/.
Notes
- 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 witho)/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) ando)/pin (omicron1005).
References
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 (Paris 2009) 779
Kaufmann-Bühler, Hermes 84 (1956) 285
Kaufmann-Bühler, Hermes 84 (1956) 285
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Dec 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth