ἐπίληπτος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. ἐπίλαμπτος, ον, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[caught]] or [[detected in]] anything, ἐ. ᾑρέθη <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>406</span>: c.part., <b class="b3">ἐπίλαμπτος ἀφάσσουσα</b> [[caught]] in the act of feeling, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.69</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span>. [[culpable]], [[censurable]], πάθος <span class="bibl">Ph.2.348</span>; βίος <span class="bibl">Id.2.4</span>, al., cf. <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Chr.</span>23</span>; of errors in metre, <span class="bibl">Heph.4.6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span>. [[disabled]], ἀνδράποδον <span class="bibl">Hyp.<span class="title">Ath.</span>15</span> (unless in signf. ''ΙΙ''); of a hen-partridge, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>613b18</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span>. [[suffering from]] [[epilepsy]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Aph.</span>3.16</span>:—<span class="bibl">D.25.80</span> puns on the two senses, <b class="b3">τοὺς ἐπιλήπτους</b> <b class="b3">φησὶν ἰᾶσθαι, αὐτὸς ὢν ἐ. πάσῃ πονηρίᾳ</b>; so ἐ. ὑπὸ πάθους Plu.2.798f.</span>