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Headword:
*gigantia=|
Adler number: gamma,263
Translated headword: acts the giant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] thinks the thoughts of the giants. The Pisidian [says] about Chosroes: "he acts the giant and desires to become a tyrant."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] gigantiai=on o)/noma ["gigantic name"], [meaning] a great one.[2] Also [sc. attested is the word] gigantole/teira, [meaning] she who destroyed the Giants. Also gigantole/tis, likewise feminine.[3] Also [sc. masculine] gigantole/twr.[4]
Greek Original:*gigantia=|: ta\ tw=n *giga/ntwn fronei=. *pisi/dhs peri\ *xosro/ou: gigantia=| de\ kai\ turannh=sai qe/lei. kai\ *gigantiai=on o)/noma, to\ me/ga. kai\ *gigantole/teira, h( tou\s *gi/gantas o)lou=sa. kai\ *gigantole/tis, o(moi/ws qhlukw=s. kai\ *gigantole/twr.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias 1.30. For Chosroes see
chi 418.
[2] Otherwise unattested.
[3] The former is attested only here; the latter is used of Athena in ps.-Lucian.
[4] Used of Zeus in Lucian.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 June 2002@00:05:54.
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