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Headword: Achthomai
Adler number: alpha,4702
Translated headword: I am sick [of], I am grieved by
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] I am distressed, I am irritated.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "I am sick of their peacocks and their quackery." Meaning their ornamental gowns; since a peacock [is] ornamental; or because they used to wear purple and tiaras.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "I am sick of his filth",[3] meaning his illiberality and pettiness. For they applied the [term] r(u/pos to those who are stingy and illiberal. Thus at any rate they call such men "dirty-knuckled" [rhupokonduloi].
And Aristophanes [writes]: "for I am sick of onions."[4]
And Josephus [writes]: "God was grieved at the survival of the king of the Amalekites and at the crowd's plundering of the cattle, because these things were done without his consent."[5]
Also [sc. attested is the participle] a)xqo/menoi ["they being grieved"], [meaning] being distressed, oppressed. "Around midday, being grieved by the sun, they laid down their arms."[6]
Also attested is the related noun a)/xqos ["grief"], [meaning] distress, pain.[7]
Greek Original:
Achthomai: baroumai, aganaktô. Aristophanês: achthomai tois taôsi tois t' alazoneumasin. anti tou tois kolpois tois pepoikilmenois: epei ho taôs poikilos. ê hoti porphurais echrônto kai tiarais. kai Achthomai autou tôi rhupôi, anti tou têi aneleutheriai kai mikrologiai. ton gar rhupon epi tôn glischrôn kai aneleutherôn etithesan. houtô goun rhupokondulous legousi tous toioutous. kai Aristophanês: kromuois gar achthomai. kai Iôsêpos: ho de theos achthetai têi te tou basileôs tôn Amalêkitôn sôtêriai kai têi tôn boskêmatôn diarpagêi tou plêthous, hoti mê sunchôrêsantos autou taut' eprachthê. kai Achthomenoi, baroumenoi, piezomenoi. amphi te hêmeran mesên tôi hêliôi achthomenoi ta hopla katethento. kai Achthos, baros, lupê.
Notes:
cf. eta 682.
[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.361, and to Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 234, where the headword occurs.
[2] Aristophanes, Acharnians 63 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
[3] Aristophanes fr. 669 Kock, now 931 K.-A. (classified by them as dubious).
[4] Aristophanes, Acharnians 1100 (web address 2).
[5] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 6.142 (web address 3).
[6] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.18.18 (web address 4). Outside the Persian-held city of Nisibis (cf. nu 426) in 541 CE, Roman troops set down their arms and begin foraging; cf. Kaldellis (111), alpha 1067, and sigma 400.
[7] From a scholium to Homer, Iliad 12.452, where the word occurs.
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3,
Web address 4
Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 June 2001@05:01:06.
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