[Meaning they] admiring, being impressed. "They remained at peace, being struck by Heracles."[1]
*)ekpaglou/menoi: qauma/zontes, e)kplhtto/menoi. e)n ei)rh/nh| e)/nemon e)kpaglou/menoi to\n *(hrakle/a.
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras.
For this verb see already
epsilon 550. In the present instance the participle (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is masculine nominative plural.
Construed with an accusative, the verb has the meaning of admiring exceedingly (see LSJ s.v.
e)kpagle/omai, II).
[1] This quotation is tentatively attributed by Adler to
Nicolaus of Damascus; but [DW] it might actually be a summary of
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 1.40.1, on Hercules overcoming the fire-breathing giant Cacus on the Palatine hill in (what would become) Rome; it includes the phrase, in reference to him,
th\n o)/yin e)paglou/menoi qei=o/n ti xrh=ma e)no/misan o(ra=n.
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