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A Greek–English Lexicon

A Greek–English Lexicon

A Greek–English Lexicon, often referred to asLiddell & Scott(/ˈlɪdəl/),[1]Liddell–Scott–Jones, orLSJ, is a standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language.

A Greek–English Lexicon
Author Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Roderick McKenzie
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Published 1843 (Oxford University Press)
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages ~1705
ISBN 0-19-864226-1
OCLC 223646000[27]
Dewey Decimal
483/.21 20
LC Class PA445.E5 L6 1996

Liddell and Scott’s lexicon

The lexicon was begun in the nineteenth century and is now in its ninth (revised) edition. Based on the earlierHandwörterbuch der griechischen Spracheby the German lexicographer Franz Passow (first published in 1819, fourth edition 1831), which in turn was based on Johann Gottlob Schneider’sKritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, it has served as the basis for all later lexicographical work on the ancient Greek language, such as the ongoing Greek–Spanish dictionary projectDiccionario Griego–Español(DGE).

It was edited by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones and Roderick McKenzie, and published by theOxford University Press. It is now conventionally referred to asLiddell & Scott,Liddell–Scott–Jones, orLSJ, and its three sizes are sometimes referred to as “The Little Liddell”, “The Middle Liddell” and “The Big Liddell” or “The Great Scott”.

According to Stuart Jones’s preface to the ninth (1925) edition, the creation of theLexiconwas originally proposed by David Alphonso Talboys, anOxfordpublisher. It was published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford rather than by Talboys because he died before the first edition (1843) was complete. The second through sixth editions appeared in 1845, 1849, 1855, 1861, and 1869.

The first editor of the LSJ, Henry George Liddell, was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and the father of Alice Liddell, the eponymous Alice of the writings of Lewis Carroll. The eighth edition (1897) is the last edition published during Liddell’s lifetime.

The LSJ is sometimes compared and contrasted withA Latin Dictionaryby Lewis and Short, which was also published by Oxford University Press (OUP). For comparisons between the two works, see the article on Lewis and Short’s dictionary. It is also sometimes compared with the Bauer lexicon, which is a similar work focused on the Greek of theNew ament.

Greek scholars use these books so much that two short memorable clerihews have been written to describe the seminal work:

Condensed editions

Two condensed editions of LSJ were published by Oxford University Press and remain in print.

In 1843, the same year as the full lexicon’s publication,A Lexicon: Abridged from Liddell and Scott’s Greek–English Lexicon, sometimes called “the Little Liddell” was published. Several revised editions followed. For example, a reprint, re-typeset in 2007, of the 1909 edition is available from Simon Wallenberg Press (ISBN 1-84356-026-7).

In 1889, an intermediate edition of the lexicon,An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, was prepared on the basis of the seventh edition (1882) of LSJ. In comparison to the smaller abridgement, this “Middle Liddell” contains more entries covering the essential vocabulary of most commonly read Ancient Greek literature, adds citations of the authors to illustrate the history of Greek usage (without identifying the passages), and provides more help with irregular forms.

The Supplement

After the publication of the ninth edition in 1940, shortly after the deaths of both Stuart Jones and McKenzie, the OUP maintained a list ofaddenda et corrigenda(additions and corrections), which was bound with subsequent printings. However, in 1968, these were replaced by a Supplement to the LSJ. Neither theaddendanor the Supplement has ever been merged into the main text, which still stands as originally composed by Liddell, Scott, Jones, and McKenzie. The Supplement was initially edited by M. L. West. Since 1981, it has been edited by P. G. W. Glare, editor of theOxford Latin Dictionary(not to be confused with Lewis and Short). Since 1988, it has been edited by Glare and Anne A. Thompson. As the title page of theLexiconmakes clear (and the prefaces to the main text and to the Supplement at), this editorial work has been performed “with the cooperation of many scholars”.

The Supplement primarily takes the form of a list of additions and corrections to the main text, sorted by entry. The supplemental entries are marked with signs to show the nature of the changes they call for. Thus, a user of theLexiconcan consult the Supplement after consulting the main text to see whether scholarship after Jones and McKenzie has provided any new information about a particular word. As of 2005, the most recent revision of the Supplement, published in 1996, contains 320 pages of corrections to the main text, as well as other materials.

Here is a typical entry from the revised Supplement:

x ἐκβουτῠπόομαι*to be changed into acow*, S.fr. 269a.37 R.

The small “x” indicates that this word did not appear in the main text at all; “S.fr.” refers to the collected fragmentary works of Sophocles.

One interesting new source of lexicographic material in the revised Supplement is the Mycenean inscriptions. The 1996 revised Supplement’s Preface notes:

At the time of the publication of the first Supplement it was felt that theVentrisdecipherment of theLinear Btablets was still too uncertain to warrant the inclusion of these texts in a standard dictionary. Ventris’s interpretation is now generally accepted and the tablets can no longer be ignored in a comprehensive Greek dictionary […].

Electronic editions

The ninth edition of LSJ has been freely available in electronic form since 2007, having been digitized by the Perseus Project. Diogenes, a free software package, incorporates the Perseus data and allows easy offline consultation of LSJ on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux platforms.[2]Marcion is another open source application[3]that includes the Perseus LSJ.[4]

For mobile devices, both the Kindle E-Ink and the iPhone/iPod Touchfeature data ported from Perseus. The Android Market also currently offers the intermediate LSJ as an offline downloadable app for free[5]or for a small price.[6][7][8]A CD-ROM version published and sold by Logos Bible Software also incorporates the Supplement’s additions to the ninth edition of LSJ. A new online version of LSJ was released in 2011 by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG). The TLG version corrects “a large number of typographical errors” and includes links to the extensive TLG textual corpus.[9]A Kindle version, the “Complete Liddell & Scott’s Lexicon with Inflections”, is also available: it allows searches of most Classical Greek word-forms and supports a growing number of Ancient / Classical Greek texts for this device.[10]

Translations

The Lexicon has been translated into Modern Greek by Anestis Konstantinidis (Greek: Ανέστης Κωνσταντινίδης) and was published in 1904 with the titleH. Liddell – R. Scott – Α. ΚωνσταντινίδουΜέγα Λεξικόν τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Γλώσσης.

French scholar Didier Fontaine was the author ofA Greek and English Lexicon with a Revised Supplement. A simplified edition.[11]In 2010s, it was published theDictionnaire grec – français du Nouveau ament(the Greek-French Dictionary of the New ament),[12]based on someLexiconof the New ament and the Septuagint.[13]

See also

  • Diccionario Griego-Español

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