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Headword:
*)amh/xanon
Adler number: alpha,1588
Translated headword: unmanageable, without means
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] beyond reason.[1]
Or unassailable, impossible.[2]
"For the Romans the delight at what had happened was unmanageable."[3]
Also [sc. attested is]
a)mh/xanos [in the sense of] she against whom there is no contrivance.[4]
Not he [who is] himself unable to make a contrivance.
Damascius [writes]: "and by an unmanageable yearning for the Bacchic in religion, which was like presaging the discovery of truth."[5]
*)amh/xanon: u(pe\r lo/gon. h)\ a)nepixei/rhton, a)du/naton. toi=s de\ *(rwmai/ois a)mh/xanos h( xara\ pare/sth pro\s to\ pa/qos. kai\ *)amh/xanos, pro\s h(\n ou)k e)/sti mhxanh/sasqai. ou)k au)to\s mh\ duna/menos mhxanh/sasqai. *dama/skios: po/qw| te a)mhxa/nw| th=s peri\ to\ qei=on bakxei/as, oi(=on a)pomanteuome/nw| e)w/|kei th\n th=s a)lhqei/as eu(/resin.
Notes:
For this adjective see already
alpha 1585, and cf.
alpha 1586,
alpha 1587.
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha1194 Theodoridis.
[2] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 14.262, where the headword (neuter singular) occurs.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[4] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 15.14, where this word is used of Hera.
[5]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 88 Zintzen (40 Asmus).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 August 2000@21:32:04.
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