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Headword:
*)epiqei=nai
Adler number: epsilon,2332
Translated headword: to dispatch
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to close.[1]
"He sends a messenger, having [sc. previously] dispatched a letter."[2]
Greek Original:*)epiqei=nai: e)piklei=sai. pe/mpei a)/ggelon, e)piqei\s e)pistolh/n.
Notes:
[1] Up to this point the entry =
Synagoge epsilon668 and
Photius,
Lexicon epsilon1553 (cf. also
Hesychius epsilon4799), and is probably based on commentary to
Homer,
Iliad 5.751 (web address 1), where the headword occurs. Compare the
scholia both to that passage and to
Iliad 21.535, along with
Etymologicum Magnum 354.25.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. Perhaps [WH] an uncomprehending abridgment of
Eunapius,
Vita sophistarum 7.4.6:
th\n pro\s *xrusa/nqion ai)th/sas e)pistolh/n, ei)=ta ei)sbalw\n e)kei/nhn kai\ sfragi=da a)mfote/rais e)piqei/s).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; epic; historiography; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: William Hutton on 29 October 2007@05:21:04.
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