Skip to content

Browse Topics Random About

Searching…

The Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient world, in English and Greek.

Read

Browse Α–Ω
Topics
Random entry

Project

About & credits
Report an error
Original SOL ↗

Follow

@ReadSuda
@readsuda.org

A new reader for the Suda On Line translation, made by 200+ volunteer translators and editors. Greek text after Adler’s edition. Translations © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA.

Free · non-commercial · no ads · no accounts[email protected]Maintained with ❤️ by Rick Lithan

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Search

Search the Suda

All Headwords Translation Greek Notes

Keyword

definition7
dialects, grammar, and etymology6
geography4
biography3
gender and sexuality3
mythology3
poetry3
religion3
women3
children2
daily life2
ethics2

16 more

history2
philosophy2
rhetoric2
architecture1
Christianity1
chronology1
comedy1
epic1
historiography1
imagery1
law1
medicine1

Letter

Γ gamma9

Vetting status

high9

Length

Short9

Translator

Jennifer Benedict4
Catharine Roth1
David Whitehead1
John Hyland1
Malcolm Heath1
Ross Scaife ✝1

Filters (1)

Keyword

definition7
dialects, grammar, and etymology6
geography4
biography3
gender and sexuality3
mythology3
poetry3
religion3
women3
children2
daily life2
ethics2

16 more

history2
philosophy2
rhetoric2
architecture1
Christianity1
chronology1
comedy1
epic1
historiography1
imagery1
law1
medicine1

Letter

Γ gamma9

Vetting status

high9

Length

Short9

Translator

Jennifer Benedict4
Catharine Roth1
David Whitehead1
John Hyland1
Malcolm Heath1
Ross Scaife ✝1

9 entries for Zeus-born

Relevance Adler order Longest first

Letter: gamma ×
Clear all

γ214Γειναμέναιςgiving birth… to follow. The lexicographer interprets the headword participle as "being born," but it should mean "giving birth." See note at gamma 215. [2] Greek Anthology 7.99.1-2 (Plato the Epigrammatist) = Diogenes Laertius 3.30. The …Matched in noteshighshort
γ219Γειωρίσαιto convert to Judaism… גר means "sojourner", but it comes to mean someone not born Jewish but converted to Judaism (Philo 1.417, Isaiah 14.1), leading to the technical term גיור ("giur", conversion). Hesychius defines the plural as "neighbors …Matched in noteshighshort
γ32ΓαληνόςGalenos, Galenus, Galen

γ214

Γειναμέναις

giving birth

[Meaning] having been born. "The Fates decreed tears for Hecuba and for the women of Ilion at the very time they were giving birth."

Γειναμέναις· γεννηθείσαις. δάκρυα μὲν Ἑκάβῃ τε καὶ Ἰλιάδεσσι γυναιξὶ Μοῖραι ἐπεκλώσαντο δὴ τότε γεινομέναις.

military affairs1

military affairs1

Born AD 129. See generally RE Galenos; OCD4 Galen; PIR2 G24. [1] Marcus (Aurelius), reigned 161-180 (mu 214, mu 215, mu 216); Commodus, reigned 180-192 (kappa 2007); Pertinax, reigned 192-193. See V. Nutton, 'The …

Matched in noteshighshort

γ112Γελλοῦς παιδοφιλωτέραmore overfond of children than Gellocf. Zenobius 3.3, attributing the tale to Lesbos, and specifically to Sappho; hence the headword phrase itself is regarded as a fragment of Sappho (178 Lobel-Page). Hesychius has two consecutive 'Gello' entries (gamma307-308) of …Matched in noteshighshort

γ215Γείνατοbegot… amended, in the Supplement, to eliminate the passive sense "is born"; cf. gamma 214.Matched in noteshighshort

γ263Γιγαντιᾷacts the giant… latter is used of Athena in ps.-Lucian. [4] Used of Zeus in Lucian.Matched in noteshighshort

γ322ΓναθαινίαGnathainia… in the Ambrosian Lexicon. (Unmentioned here is Gnathainion, a name borne by several courtesans/prostitutes.)Matched in noteshighshort

γ445ΓράψομαιI will indict… with the gloss of the scholia there. The "him" is Zeus, which instantly renders the idea of a prosecution fantastical; nevertheless the Athenian audience will have understood the term "indict" as one indicating a …Matched in noteshighshort

γ463ΓρύλλοςGryllos, Gryllus… generally xi 47, xi 48. His sons were almost certainly born sometime after 399 BCE. Gryllos, who bore the same name as his grandfather (xi 47), served as an Athenian cavalryman and was killed …Matched in noteshighshort