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Headword:
Autochthones
Adler number: alpha,4536
Translated headword: from their own soil, autochthonous
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] the Athenians; [sc. so called] either since they were the first to work the soil, that is the earth, when it was [still] fallow; or because of their not being immigrants. Arcadians and Aeginetans and Thebans, too, used to be called autochthones.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the singular] au)to/xqwn, [meaning someone] from the same city.[2]
Greek Original:Autochthones: hoi Athênaioi: ê epei tên chthona, toutesti tên gên, argên ousan prôtoi eirgasanto: ê dia to mê einai autous epêludas. autochthones de kai Arkades kai Aiginêtai kai Thêbaioi ekalounto. kai Autochthôn, tês autês poleôs.
Notes:
OCD(4) p.214, s.v. 'autochthons'.
[1] This first part of the entry - already at
alpha 732 - is an abridgement of the equivalent one in Harpokration (which cites its sources in full, chiefly
Demosthenes 19.261 (web address 1) and
Apollodorus FGrH 244 F106).
[2] Same material in other lexica.
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; agriculture; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; mythology; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 October 2000@05:23:24.
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