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Lexical Notes on Dio Chrysostom
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Highet, Gilbert |
| Copyright Year | 1974 |
| Abstract | I N A BRmF ARTICLE proposing certain emendations in the text of Dio Chrysostom's Euboean Discourse, W. B. Anderson concluded by remarking, "I may perhaps express the hope that the forthcoming revision of Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon will take more account of Dion than preceding editions have done. It is easy to point to words or to notable constructions which the Lexicon ignores."! That was written some seventy years ago. Unfortunately, even after the appearance of the latest edition in 1940 (with its many Addenda et Corrigenda on pp. 2043-111) and the Supplement in 1968, it is still true. Dio is often an attractive writer. His Greek, lively, copious and varied, deserves study for its own sake. A good number of words and locutions appear first in his work, to be taken up later by his admirers, such as Julian; but not enough of these are given in LS]. No doubt it is natural that Plutarch, a more famous and more important author, should be cited without mention of Dio for words used by both men. Such, for example, are: a8laTOC II, 'not seeing' (Dio Chrys. 4.113); aKa8EKToc, 'ungovernable' (Dio 7.138); oLaTopoc, neut. as adv., 'piercingly' (Dio 4.108); €7rtKWIJ.OC, 'revelling' (Dio 33.14); cTpaT~YTjI.La. 2, 'trick' (Dio 11.148); V7rTjVljLLOC 1.2, 'swift as the wind' (Dio 4.117); VCTEpl,w labs., 'hang back' from battle (Dio 2.30). It is, however, anomalous that some words used by Dio should have no other authority in LSJ than the Septuagint or late writers such as appian, and that others again (for example, ' [)..wJc, 'Trojan') should be wholly omitted. On pp. ix-x of his preface, Stuart Jones thanks Herbert W. Greene of Magdalen for his contributions to the lexicography of later Greek literature, "including the works of practically every non-technical |
| Starting Page | 247 |
| Ending Page | 253 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/download/8951/4643 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Notes |
