ADOKIMOS = disqualified for the prize?

Polycarp66 at aol.com Polycarp66 at aol.com
Tue Aug 20 11:28:39 EDT 2002


In a message dated 8/20/2002 10:35:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:


ADOKIMOS is defined by BDAG as "'not standing the test', then unqualified,
worthless, base"; that can be extended in several directions but I think
one ought to be careful (more careful than the NIV translators have been)
not to express the sense more specifically than the context clearly
intends. In VERY colloquial (American) English, the fundamental sense of
the word seems to me to be "not up to snuff."
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This seems to correspond to one of the references given in LSJ. In the Const. 
of the Lac., Xenophon writes

EPIQEIS DE KAI EI TIS TAUTA FUGOI, MHDENOS ETI TWN KALWN TUGXANEIN, EPOIHSE 
MH MONON TOUS EK DHMOSIOU ALLA KAI TOUS KHDOMENOUS hEKASTOWN EPIMELEISQAI, 
**hWS MH APODEILIASANTES ADOKIMOI PANTAPASIN EN THi POLEI GENOINTO.**
 

The penalty for shirking the duties was exclusion from all future honours. He 
thus caused not only the public authorities, but their relations also to take 
pains **that the lads did not incur the contempt of their fellow citizens by 
flinching from their tasks.**

(translator unspecified -- Perseus site)

gfsomsel






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