Πρέσβα

Notes (1)

1. For the headword pre/sba see LSJ s.v.: "Ep[ic] fem[inine] of pre/sbus, august, honoured (never aged); in Il[iad] mostly of Hera." Indeed, in the source of the present entry (see next note), Homer, Iliad 14.194 (web address 1), Aphrodite addresses Hera as pre/sba qea/: honored goddess. For this expression, Cunliffe suggests queen of heaven (p. 341).
1. 1The gloss, which follows the scholia to the aforementioned passage, is the superlative degree, feminine nominative singular, of the two-ending adjective e)/ntimos, -on (in honor); see generally LSJ s.v. ↩