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Hesychius’ Lydian Glosses I
No full textThe historical distance between Hesychius, whose life dates (approx. AD 500) are only a rough estimate, and the Lydian Empire amounts to over a millennium, and a similar distance separates his work from the oldest surviving manuscript at the Marciana Library in Venice. The Hesychian lexicon contains a number of glosses referring to the Lydians which have been particularly badly understood, and therefore have been subject to emendation throughout their reception history. This unpromising situation is slowly improving due to continued work on the Lydian language and surviving inscriptions. The present article addresses a selection of Lydian glosses preserved in the Marciana manuscript
Hesychius
No full textThe lexicon of Hesychius, which has been preserved in a single manuscript from the early 15th c. CE, is a large dictionary of Greek words from the 5th/6th c. CE, compiled on the basis of earlier works by Greek grammarians and lexicographers (Diogenianus, in particular, but also Aristarchus, Heliodorus, Apion, and Herodian). The lexicon shows traces of heavy interpolation (prior to 10th c. CE), while its text is notoriously corrupt in various respects (alphabetical ordering of lemmata, relationship between lemmata and their explanations, etc.). Nonetheless, the wealth of dialectal and foreign words, even from poorly attested Ancient Greek dialects and rudimentary ancient languages respectively, has singled out Hesychius’ work as the most important source among the extant ancient/medieval Greek lexica
Hesychius ω 467 Cunningham
No full textA gloss in the Cyrillus-codex Bremensis helps to heal the corrupt gloss of Hesychius ω 467 Cunningha
Hesychius of Jerusalem, ecclesiastical history (CPG 6582)
Get PDFThis article is the first gathering and study of the fragments of the lost Church history of Hesychius of Jerusalem. Being a history of the council of Ephesus (431) in four books, the work is of interest for the development of the genre, as it is the first ecclesiastical history dedicated to a single council. We propose a dating in the years 434-439 and show that the tradition about the Church history provides important evidence for the otherwise unknown polemical activity of Hesychius, to be situated in the context of the conflict in Palestine about Chalcedon in 451-453
Hesychius Hierosolymitanus, Commentarius in Leviticum.
No full textNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Avec prol. (P. G., XCIII, 787-1180)
Hesychius of Jerusalem, <i>Ecclesiastical History</i> (CPG 6582)
No full textThe testimonia and fragments of Hesychius’ lost history of the Council of Ephesus in 431, the first ecclesiastical history dedicated to a single council, are collected and discussed
Hesychius’ Lydian Glosses I
Get PDFThe historical distance between Hesychius, whose life dates (approx. AD 500) are only a rough estimate, and the Lydian Empire amounts to over a millennium, and a similar distance separates his work from the oldest surviving manuscript at the Marciana Library in Venice. The Hesychian lexicon contains a number of glosses referring to the Lydians which have been particularly badly understood, and therefore have been subject to emendation throughout their reception history. This unpromising situation is slowly improving due to continued work on the Lydian language and surviving inscriptions. The present article addresses a selection of Lydian glosses preserved in the Marciana manuscript
TWO NEW FRAGMENTS OF ANAXANDRIDES IN HESYCHIUS?
No full textWe can first note the obvious, that both glosses are sexual in nature: τὸ βιάζεσθαι γυναῖκας, ‘to rape women’; in τὸ παιδὶ συνεῖναι we obviously have the euphemistic use of συνεῖναι, ‘to have sex with a child’. Hesychius’ entries have the appearance of straightforward dialect glosses, yet Ambraciot never elicited much attention in ancient dialectology and glossography. Furthermore, as ancient glossography consisted mainly in culling unusual vocabulary from literary texts, we can legitimately ask what sources might have been available to Hellenistic scholars for Ambraciot.</jats:p
On the term βίσταξ in a gloss by Hesychius
No full textThis paper is devoted to the the Greek word and the corresponding Middle Iranian βίσταξ word bitaxš, a term that has received a great deal of attention from specialists in Persian studies over the last century. The Iranian term is unusually well documented in both inscriptions and Book Pahlavi texts. The term bitaxš certainly indicated a very high dignitary of the Parthian court, later penetrated in the ranks of the Sāsānid court. Insufficient thought has been given, in the many discussions on this Iranian office, to the extremely precious, albeit brief, testimonium contained in a lemma of Hesychius. A careful inspection of the Hesychuys passage in ms H allows us to read, without any distortion of the transmitted text, "βίσταξ, ὁ β' [scil. δεύτερος] βασιλεὺς παρὰ Πέρσαις", "b., the second king among the Persians". Hesychius' lemma is, quite simply, the transposition of an etymological reintepretation of the Middle Iranian term bitaxš, which can only be understood in the presence of specifically Parthian metalinguistic expertise. Indeed the Parthian form can be traced back to the ancient compound *bitya-xšaya-"margrave; governor representing the king"; it was initially transformed into bitiaxš, a form that was reinterpreted in some marginal areas in such a way that it was combined with Parthian *pātixšāh "ruler". Later, at the end ofthe 2nd century CE, the /i/ or /j/ in the second syllable disappeared: hence the documented forms from the 3rd century CE onwards, not without fluctuations, bitaxš/pitaxš
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