[Used] with an accusative.[1] [Meaning] I do my work as a gift.
Aristophanes writes: "but, my poor fellow, I do not happen to be a public doctor". [2] For the doctors appointed by popular vote also, [as] public officials, used to provide health-care
gratis.[3] As if to say, we did not make libation for the community, but for me alone,[4] and I will not share it with you without reward.
Dêmosieuôn: aitiatikêi. dôrean ergazomai. Aristophanês: all' ô ponêr', ou dêmosieuôn tunchanô. hoi gar dêmosiai cheirotonoumenoi iatroi kai dêmosioi proika etherapeuon. hoion, ou koinêi espeisamen, all' emautôi monôi, kai amisthi ou metadidômi soi.
The headword, taken from the quotation which follows, is the present participle (nominative masculine singular) of the verb
dhmosieu/w.
[1] The gloss on the headword which immediately follows has an accusative of respect (
dwrea/n). But for simple transitive uses of
dhmosieu/w itself see e.g.
Xenophon,
Hellenica 1.7.10 (to confiscate -- literally make public -- money), and generally LSJ s.v.I.1-4.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1030 (web address 1). This meaning is also attested in
Plato,
Gorgias 514D (web address 2).
[3] Excerpted from a scholion to the same verse (
Scholia in Acharnenses - scholia vetera et recentiora Triclinii-, N.G. Wilson).
[4] The reading in the scholion (and in Codex
Parisinus 2625, one of the manuscripts on which the Suda is based) is
e)speisa/mhn, first person singular of the middle voice, instead of
e)spei/samen, first person plural of the active. This is significant because, in addition to the change of person, there is a shift to the middle voice where the libation is clearly the metaphor of a treaty (as in
Herodotus 3.144,
Thucydides 4.99 and in this same work, at lines 199 and 1534). Therefore the sense of the phrase should be "I did not make a public treaty, but one just for me", which fits the context.
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