Πανόπτης
all-seeing
Translated by Alex Gottesman21 Dec 2002Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] many-eyed.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πανόπτης· πολυόφθαλμος.
Betacode
*pano/pths: poluo/fqalmos.
Notes
- A word particularly favoured by Aeschylus: Supplices 304 (Argus), Eumenides 1045 (Zeus), and in line 91 (sun) of the Prometheus Bound, which may or may not be Aeschylean. (For other instances in tragedy, comedy, and elsewhere see LSJ s.v.) Although the scholia to those three passages do not contain the present gloss, the scholia to
muriwpo/n in (?)Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 567, do mention Argus (above), refer to him as 'all-seeing', and gloss this as 'many-eyed'.
cf. generally pi 210.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 4 Oct 2015
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note; another keyword — David Whitehead
- added x-ref — David Whitehead
- modified note, for greater user-friendliness; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Alex Gottesman