κατασκηφθέντα χωρία

κατα-σκήπτω, [tense] fut. -ψω E.Hipp. 1418:—

A rush down or fall upon, Arist.Mu. 395a25, D.S.16.80, etc.; of the rainbow, Arist.HA 553b30; of divine visitations,

τοῖσι Λακεδαιμονίοισι μῆνις κατέσκηψε Ταλθυβίου Hdt.7.134

; ἐς ἀλλέλους ib. 137; ἤν κατασκήψῃ ἐς τὴν Πελοπόννησον, of an omen, Id.8.65; ὀργαὶ κ. ἐς τὸ σὸν δέμας E.l.c.; τίς κατέσκηψεν τύχη; A.Supp. 327;

ἐς Οἰδίπου παῖδε Ἄρης κ. Ar.Fr. 558

; of Nemesis, D.H.3.23; esp. of sickness, attack, [

ἡ νόσος] κατέσκηπτε ἐς ἄκρας χεῖρας καὶ πόδας Th.2.49

, cf. Hp.Epid.3.8;

εἰς γυναῖκας D.H.9.40

;

ῥεῦμα κ. τινὶ ἐς τὰ νεῦρα Paus.6.3.10

, cf. Gal.1.286;

ἡ ξανθὴ [χολὴ] ὀδόντι Alex.Aphr.Pr.1.40

, etc.

2 c.acc., fall upon, τινα dub.l. in E.Med.94 (fort. τινι):—[voice] Pass., κατασκηφθέντα χωρία struck by lightning, Hsch.s.v. ἐνηλύσια.

II causal,

εἰς ὅ τι -σκήψει τέλος ὁ δαίμων νέμεσιν Plu.Aem.27

.

III κ. λιταῖς storm or importune with prayers, c.inf., S.OC 1011.

IV abs., break out, go forth, of a report, App.BC3.25; κ. εἰς τέλος come to an issue, of a war, D.H. 3.54.

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: adjunct of πεδίον (δ 563, A. R. 4, 811, Str., Plu.), also without main substantive (IG 14, 1750); rarely Ήλύσιος λειμών, χῶρος (Luc., late inscr.) Abode of the Blessed after death.

Derivatives: Ήλύσιος `Elysian' ( αὖραι etc., IG 14, 1389). Here also ἐν-ηλύσιος ἐμβρόντητος, κεραυνόβλητος H., ἐνηλύσια (A. Fr. 17) τὰ κατασκηφθέντα χωρία H.? taken as "being in Elysion", as those hit by lightning acc. to folk belief would come in a higher form of life (thus Cocco, s. below). In the same meaning also the simplex ἠλύσια n. pl. (Polem. Hist. 93).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Unexplained, without a doubt Pre-Greek (e. g. Malten ArchJb. 28, 35ff.; on Elysion as Pre-Greek conception Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1, 324ff.). Often connected with ἐλεύσομαι, ἤλυθον (EM 428, 36, Fick 1³, 200, Capelle Arch. f. Religionswiss. 26, 30ff.); against this view a. o. Wackernagel Dehnungsgesetz 5 (= Kl. Schr. 2, 901), Güntert Kalypso 38 n. 3. Untenable IE etymologies also by Schrader Sprachvergleichung und Urgesch.³ 435 (to Lith. vė̃lės `ghosts of the dead', OWNo. valr m. sg. `the corpses on the battlefield' etc.; against these views Güntert l. c.), by Carnoy Beitr. z. Namenforschung 7, 119 (to ἦλος τόπος..., ἐν ᾦ οὑδεν φύεται H.). Explanations from Semitic (Lewy Fremdw. 219ff., Cocco Biblos 31, separ. ed. 1ff.) are also to be considered wrong. Beekes, FS Watkins 1998, 19-23, refutes that somebody struck by lightning goes to Elysion; against Burkert, Glotta 39 (1961) 208 -213. He thinks the word is derived with - ιο- from a geographical name * ᾽Ε\/ ᾽Αλυτ\/θ-, with long first vowel, perhaps metri causa.

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