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Headword:
*)epiqeia/swn
Adler number: epsilon,2331
Translated headword: to call upon, to invoke
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning intending] to hold a festival.[1] "And he stayed there [sc. intending] to call upon [God] on the day of Christ's birth. For the majesty of the day was approaching."[2]
Greek Original:*)epiqeia/swn: e(orta/swn. o( de\ e)/meinen au)tou= e)piqeia/swn th=| geneqli/a| h(me/ra| tou= *xristou=. kai\ ga\r prosepe/laze th=s h(me/ras to\ se/bas.
Notes:
cf. generally
epsilon 2031,
epsilon 2032,
epsilon 2329,
epsilon 2330.
[1] Headword and glosses are future participles in the masculine nominative singular; the headword one, from
e)piqea/zw/
e)piqeia/zw, is evidently extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley (76-77), on Roman envoy Peter (cf.
pi 1406) spending Christmas and Epiphany at Dara (Daras, cf.
delta 68) before proceeding into Persian territory (early 562); cf.
alpha 3339. Find further excerpts from this fragment at
alpha 2811,
alpha 3339,
epsilon 491,
theta 162,
kappa 480,
mu 637,
mu 721,
xi 124,
pi 1695, and
rho 149.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; religion
Translated by: Kyle Heath on 1 December 2005@09:30:26.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added notes and more keywords) on 1 December 2005@09:42:25.
Catharine Roth (added cross-references) on 24 October 2007@11:31:51.
Catharine Roth (added another cross-reference) on 27 October 2007@19:34:45.
David Whitehead (updated ref) on 3 January 2012@05:51:00.
David Whitehead on 11 October 2012@08:47:36.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 27 January 2016@11:18:22.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 26 August 2017@20:58:33.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography and cross-references) on 21 September 2024@12:38:38.
Ronald Allen (tweaked n.2, added cross-references) on 22 September 2024@12:13:49.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.2) on 13 November 2024@11:14:41.
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