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Headword: *)agxi/sporoi
Adler number: alpha,405
Translated headword: near-seeded
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning those] close in descent.[1]
Damascius [writes]: "[...] but with the strength of a nature noble and 'near-seeded of gods' [...]."[2]
Greek Original:
*)agxi/sporoi: e)ggu\s ge/nous. *dama/skios: a)lla\ r(w/mh| gennai/as fu/sews kai\ qew=n a)gxispo/rou.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in other lexica (references at Photius alpha297 Theodoridis) and in the scholia to Plato, Republic 3.391E, where this nominative plural occurs in a quotation (oi( qew=n a)gxi/sporoi: part of Aeschylus fr. 162).
[2] Damascius fr.87 Zintzen (40 Asmus); cf. pi 1966.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; philosophy; religion; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 30 October 2000@21:08:10.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 24 July 2001@05:10:29.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 17 February 2003@06:06:46.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 9 January 2012@07:38:33.
David Whitehead (expanded and tweaked n.1) on 19 August 2013@05:02:19.

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