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Headword:
Apragmosunê
Adler number: alpha,3682
Translated headword: indifference, idleness, quietude
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] neglect, laissez-faire.
"Justinian called their indifference toward the Cutriguri unjust."[1]
Also [sc. attested is]
a)pragmosu/nh, a type of flower.
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "[he] smelling of bindweed and of quietude."[2] Meaning smelling of every sweet smell and of security. Or not being meddlesome. But others [say] that
apragmosyne grew as a [sc. wild] plant in [the] Academy.[3]
Apragmosunê: hê kataphronêsis, hê ameleia. ho de Ioustinianos adikon autôn apekalei tên es Koutrigourous apragmosunên. kai Apragmosunê, eidos anthous. Aristophanês Nephelais: milakos ozôn kai apragmosunês. anti tou pasês euôdias ozôn kai asphaleias. ê ou polupragmonôn. hoi de hoti apragmosunê phuton en Akadêmiai phuomenon.
Notes:
cf. generally
alpha 3683.
[1]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.18.18; cf.
kappa 2197.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1007 (web address 1 below); cf. already
alpha 774 and again
mu 1058. What now follows comes from the
scholia on this line: see next note.
[3] The present headword as a botanical name is duly registered by LSJ s.v., IV, but
Aristophanes of
Byzantium (the authority for the scholiasts and
Hesychius here) probably got this wrong; see Dover's edition ad loc.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 November 2001@17:57:10.
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