*megalei=on: o( de\ e)teqh/pei au)tou= th\n megalo/noian kai\ au)=qis tw=n me/trwn to\ a)cia/gaston.
The headword is the neuter nominative/accusative (and masculine accusative) singular form of the adjective
megalei=os, -a, -on; see LSJ s.v.,
mu 357,
mu 358,
mu 360, and
mu 361. Here, as the context shows, it is neuter accusative, used (in a common Greek idiom) as if it were an abstract noun. The lemma is contained within, and evidently extracted from, a fuller entry already at
epsilon 1348 (cf. n. 1-2).
[1] Ennius. Originally from Messapia (Barrington Atlas map 45 grid G4; the region of Salento, southeastern Apulia, in present-day Italy), the naturalized Roman poet Quintus Ennius (239-169; OCD(4) s.v.,
epsilon 1348) wrote an encomium on Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236-183); OCD(4) p.382; Walbank, p. 191ff; and
pi 2054.
[2]
Aelian fr. 116 Hercher (119 Domingo-Forasté). [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that Asmus had incorrectly located this fragment within
Damascius'
Life of Isidore (Asmus, p. 448, 479).] Gaisford --
rashly, by Adler's lights -- replaced the headword with
*megalo/noia (
great intelligence), which appears in the quotation in the accusative singular, and moved the passage so that it followed
mu 360. There is no reason to do so, as the headword does appear in the more complete passage at
epsilon 1348. Adler also notes that Kuster deleted
au)=qis ("moreover"), so that this entry conforms to
epsilon 1348, and restored the lemma by inserting
to\ megalei=on after
me/trwn; and that Bernhardy deleted the entry altogether.]
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. II, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967
D. Domingo-Forasté, ed., Clavdii Aeliani: Epistvlae et Fragmenta, Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1994
J.R. Asmus, "Zur Rekonstruktion von Damascius' Leben des Isidorus," Byzantinische Zeitschrift, vol. 18, 1909, pp. 424-80
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