Συφεός

pigsty

Translated by John Mulhall22 Jan 2012Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 33 words
A place where pigs are reared.1
It is also called sufew/n.
Agathias [writes]: "if [it is] not absurd to say, the armies of the Romans had remained as if in pigsties and byres."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Συφεός· τόπος ὅπου αἱ σύες τρέφονται. λέγεται καὶ Συφεών. Ἀγαθίας· εἰ μὴ καταγέλαστον εἰπεῖν, ὥσπερ ἐν συφεῶσι καὶ μάνδραις τὰ τῶν Ῥωμαίων μεμενήκει στρατεύματα.

Betacode
*sufeo/s: to/pos o(/pou ai( su/es tre/fontai. le/getai kai\ *sufew/n. *)agaqi/as: ei) mh\ katage/laston ei)pei=n, w(/sper e)n sufew=si kai\ ma/ndrais ta\ tw=n *(rwmai/wn memenh/kei strateu/mata.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Same glossing in Photius and other lexica, prompted by Circe's phrase e)/rxeo nu=n sufeo/nde in Homer, Odyssey 10.320. ↩
  2. 2A loose approximation of Agathias, Histories 5.13 (p. 180 lines 5-6). Agathias does not include ta\ tw=n *(rwmai/wn memenh/kei strateu/mata in the same clause. *ta\ tw=n *(rwmai/wn strateu/mata instead is the subject of the following sentence, and the verb memenh/kei is nowhere to be found, though the participle diamemenhko/ta is present in line 7. Accordingly, the Suda's muddled excerpt alters much of the sense of Agathias. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 5 Dec 2023
  1. beta code typo n.2 — Ronald Allen
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. tweaked betacode — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — John Mulhall

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