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Headword:
*)/eggeion
Adler number: epsilon,55
Translated headword: earthly, landed, terrestrial
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] on land, dry. The Pisidian [writes]: "having traversed this route of exile, o most powerful one, like a terrestrial road."[1]
[sc. Another illustration of]
e)/ggeion: "he allotted the territory, giving to each a talent as his share, supposing that the city's affairs would stand firm, if the men were attached to their landed properties."[2]
Some [say that this word applies] to that which is nearer [
e)ggu/s].[3] But the orators do not use it this way; rather, when they wish to indicate what is on land. For example
Demosthenes in the [speech]
Against Apatourios [writes]: "since I do not have with this man any contract for business by sea or land [...]."[4] And
Lysias [writes]: "since the law bids the guardians to keep the property for orphans in land, but this man declares that we are sailors [...]."[5]
But
e)/ggion with iota [means] nearer [
e)ggu/teron].[6]
*)/eggeion: xe/rson, chra/n. *pisi/dhs: tau/thn, kra/tiste, th\n a)pecenwme/nhn o(do\n pera/sas, w(/sper e)/ggeion dro/mon. *)/eggeion: o( de\ kateklhrou/xei th\n xw/ran didou\s e(ka/stw| tala/ntion klh=ron, ou(/tws u(polamba/nwn sth=nai ta\ kata\ th\n po/lin, prosdeqe/ntwn tw=n a)nqrw/pwn tai=s e)ggei/ois kth/sesi. tine\s e)pi\ tou= e)ggute/rw. ou)x ou(/tw de\ oi( r(h/tores e)/tasson, a)ll' o(/tan to\ e)n gh=| qe/lwsi dhlw=sai: w(s *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| pro\s *)apatou/rion: ou)k o)/ntos e)moi\ pro\s tou=ton ou)/te nautikou= ou)/te e)ggei/ou sumbolai/ou. kai\ *lusi/as: tou= no/mou keleu/ontos tou\s e)pitro/pous toi=s o)rfanoi=s e)/ggeion th\n ou)si/an kaqista/nai, ou(=tos de\ nautikou\s h(ma=s a)pofai/nei. *)/eggion de\ dia\ tou= i, to\ e)ggu/teron.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is (masculine and) feminine accusative singular of this adjective.
See also
epsilon 56.
[1] George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias fr. 17 Tartaglia, on Heraclius's advance towards
Samosata (late March 625). Tartaglia notes (229, n. 88) that the Pisidian's fragments 14-17 concern the Roman emperor's traversal of the Taurus Mountains (fr. 14; cf.
tau 168); his fording of the Nymphius and Euphrates Rivers (frr. 15-16); and, in this fragment, the route west to
Samosata (present-day Samsat, Adiyaman Province, Turkey; on the upper Euphrates River, Barrington Atlas map 67 grid H1); cf. Kaegi (130-131). On Heraclius see
eta 465 generally. The Nymphius River (Nymphios, the modern-day Batman River in southeast Turkey, Barrington Atlas map 89 grid D2) rises in the Taurus Mountains (Barrington Atlas map 89 grids C2-F3) and flows south into the Tigris (Barrington Atlas map 89 grid D3).
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[3] See the end of this entry.
[4]
Demosthenes 33.3 (web address 1).
[5]
Lysias fr.265 Sauppe (91 Thalheim), now 428 Carey. The transmitted text does not seem to end intelligibly, and emendations have been proposed which create a proper contrast for property 'in land', i.e. money invested in bottomry loans (e.g. van Herwerden,
nautikh\n h(mi=n for the Suda's
nautikou\s h(ma=s).
[6] That is,
e)/ggion is a comparative form of the adverb
e)ggu/s, equivalent to
e)ggu/teron; cf.
epsilon 63.
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
W.E. Kaegi, Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium, (Cambridge 2003)
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