[B-Greek] LSJ quotation
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Nov 2 16:32:47 EST 2005
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:38:59 -0600 "Harold R. Holmyard III"
<hholmyard at ont.com> writes:
> Dear list,
>
> I am looking at an entry in LSJ where there is a quote I don't
> understand. Could someone please help. It is under PROSTATIS at the
>
> end of the entry PROSTATEIA. The document is by Lucianus. It is Bis
>
> Accusatus 29. The words are:
>
> hO DHMOS ARCHN hEAUTOU PROSTATIS APEFHNE KAI EKALESE DHMARCIAN
>
> Right now I understand something like: " The people at first deposed
>
> its patron and called a tribune. But DNMARCIA may be the office of
> tribune rather than a tribune. There may be other problems if ARCHN
>
> is not used adverbially, or it APOFWNEW does not mean depose from
> office but depose in evidence as LSJ states. I may not be close at
> all.
>
> In Perseus I don't get any hits when I search for PROSTATIS,
> PROSTATHS, or PROSTATEIA, and I can't locate the document Bis
> Accusatus
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
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First, the entry is PROSTATIS (the fem of PROSTATHS) rather than
PROSTATEIA. Second, the citation appears to be from Appianus Historicus
_Bella_Civilia_ rather than Lucianus Sophistica _Bis_Accusatus_ which is
the preceeding citation (note the ";" dividing the citations).
It seems rather interesting that the author would use the fem rather than
the masc. In my opinion this would likely indicate that is is the office
rather than the office-holder to which reference is being made. In
keeping with this DHMARXIA is the "office or rank of DHMARXOS" rather
than the demarch himself (i.e., the office-holder). Thus rather than
saying that "The people at first deposed its patron and called a
tribune", I would think that the idea is that "The people first abolished
the administratorship and established a demarch (tribune)."
george
gfsomsel
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