Suda On Line menu Search

Home
Search results for alpha,1276 in Adler number:
Greek display:    

Headword: *)alkei/dhs
Adler number: alpha,1276
Translated headword: Alkeides, Alcides
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] Herakles, in papponymical terms.[1] For Amphitryon was son of Alkaios.[2]
Greek Original:
*)alkei/dhs: o( *(hraklh=s pappwnumikw=s. *)alke/ws ga\r pai=s *)amfitru/wn.
Notes:
[1] i.e. named after his grandfather. (The adverb pappwnumikw=s is very rare, found otherwise only in scholiastic comment on Homer, Iliad 9.191, where Achilles is named after his grandfather Aiakos; cf. alphaiota 5.) Calling Herakles this is commoner in Latin literature (Vergil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, et al.) than in Greek.
[2] See alpha 1272 with the note there; and alpha 1777.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mythology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 May 2000@21:08:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 1 February 2001@06:57:16.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 7 February 2012@06:03:26.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; more keywords) on 7 June 2015@04:06:45.

Find      

Test Database Real Database

(Try these tips for more productive searches.)

No. of records found: 1    Page 1

End of search