"He operated with so much munificence and sagacity that he was neither seen when being looked for, nor found when being sought, nor captured when defeated."[1]
"When someone had set about blowing [sc. the
aulos] loudly,
Zeno[2] slapped him and said that the quality might not be credited to the loudness, but rather the loudness to the quality."[3]
*megalodwri/a: tosau/th| megalodwri/a| kai\ sofi/a| e)xrh/sato: ou)/te ga\r e(wra=to o(rw/menos ou)/te eu(ri/sketo eu(risko/menos ou)/te katelamba/neto a(lisko/menos. *zh/nwn e)pibalome/nou tino\s me/ga fusa=n, pata/cas ei)=pen, w(s ou)k e)n tw=| mega/lw| to\ eu)= kei/menon ei)/h, a)ll' e)n tw=| eu)= to\ me/ga.
The unglossed headword, presumably generated by the first of the quotations given, where it appears in the dative singular, is a feminine noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] An approximation (and rearrangement) of
Cassius Dio 76.10.2. It describes the successful strategy -- to the frustration of L. Septimius
Severus (emperor 193-211; OCD(4) s.v. Septimius
Severus) -- of the Italian bandit Felix Bulla in 206-7 (cf.
lambda 474 (end) and Wiedemann, p. 223).
[2]
Zeno (335-263, founder of philosophical Stoicism; cf.
zeta 79 and OCD(4) s.v.
Zeno(2)) of Citium, on the island of
Cyprus (Barrington Atlas map 72 mrid D3).
[3] Inaccurately paraphrased or recalled from
Diogenes Laertius 7.21; in fact, D.L. relates that
Zeno used to quote the musician Kaphisias regarding the latter's reproach of his students' style of play. The anecdote also appears at
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 14.629A-B (14.26 Kaibel), where Kaphisias is identified as a master of the
aulos (cf.
alpha 4447 and West, pp. 81-109).
This quotation is not directly related to the headword. It was apparently included because the adjective
me/gas (
big, great, strong), from which the lemma derives, occurs here in the neuter (and masculine) dative singular; applied to sounds it means
loud; see LSJ s.v. and
mu 352.
T.E.J. Wiedemann, Greek and Roman Slavery, London: Routledge, 1981
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
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