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Headword: *daimoni/ws
Adler number: delta,118
Translated headword: marvelously, miraculously
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] surprisingly.[1]
"'He was attended', he said, 'in a marvelous manner'."[2]
"He was marvelously keen on sex."[3] Meaning surprisingly, exceedingly.
Greek Original:
*daimoni/ws: parado/cws. e)qerapeu/qh de/, e)/fh, daimoni/w| tro/pw|. o( de\ e)s ta\ a)frodi/sia daimoni/ws e)spoudakw/s. a)nti\ tou= parado/cws, u(perfuw=s.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in ps.-Zonaras.
[2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 46 Habrich (illustrating not the headword adverb but a phrase with the same sense).
[3] Procopius, Secret History 12.27.3 (web address 1), on Justinian (see iota 446 generally); cf. Kaldellis (60). On the emperor's habits and lifestyle, see also alpha 163, alpha 1259, and alpha 3522.
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 July 2002@23:58:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 4 September 2002@07:15:09.
David Whitehead on 17 June 2012@06:34:23.
David Whitehead on 7 October 2015@05:12:57.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3; added bibliography, cross-references, and link) on 14 May 2024@11:31:06.

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