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Headword:
*(ellanodi/kai
Adler number: epsilon,740
Translated headword: Hellanodikai, Greek judges
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the judges who presided at the [sc. Olympic] games.[1]
Eunapius [writes]: "Thus even at that time Gainas the greatest
Hellanodikes was presiding over the destruction of the Romans."[2]
*(ellanodi/kai: oi( kritai\ oi( kaqh/menoi ei)s tou\s a)gw=nas. *eu)na/pios: ou(/tw kai\ to/te o( me/gistos *(ellanodi/khs *gai+na=s to\n *(rwmai+ko\n o)/leqron h)qloqe/tei.
Notes:
[1] See also
epsilon 741. The headword is a Doric form, used also in Attic; the Attic-Ionic dialect form is
e(llhnodi/kai, and the Elean is
e(llanozi/kai. See LSJ s.v.
[2]
Eunapius fr.79 FHG (4.49); again
eta 154; and for Gainas see also
pi 1939, esp. the note on him there. Given who he was, and the context generally, both
Hellanodikes and the verb
a)qloqetei=n are ironic metaphors.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 July 2006@16:27:33.
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