Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for omicron,465 in Adler number:
Headword:
*(oplisth/s
Adler number: omicron,465
Translated headword: warrior, hoplite, warrior's
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the man [sc. named] from his arms [hopla].[1]
[...] having lost all [your] warrior's gear [...]."[2]
Greek Original:*(oplisth/s: o( e)k tw=n o(/plwn. pa/nta to\n o(plista\n ko/smon o)lwleko/ta.
Notes:
The headword is rare, but can be either a noun or (as in the quotation given) an adjective; see generally LSJ s.v.
After the epigram quoted here, the next attestation of the word is in Vettius Valens, astrologer of the second century CE; then in the Christian writers
Hippolytus and Gregory of Nyssa.
[1] cf.
omicron 466,
omicron 467,
omicron 468.
[2]
Erycius (C1 BCE),
Greek Anthology 7.230.2 (with Doric accusative singular): a Spartan mother punishes her son for returning weaponless (cf.
tau 926). A similar phrase
o(pli/thn ko/smon occurs in
Euripides,
Heracleidae 699.
Keywords: Christianity; clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; military affairs; poetry; tragedy; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 February 2010@01:30:45.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search