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Headword:
*au)to/xqones
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:*au)to/xqones: oi( *)aqhnai=oi: h)\ e)pei\ th\n xqo/na, toute/sti th\n gh=n, a)rgh\n ou)=san prw=toi ei)rga/santo: h)\ dia\ to\ mh\ ei)=nai au)tou\s e)ph/ludas. au)to/xqones de\ kai\ *)arka/des kai\ *ai)ginh=tai kai\ *qhbai=oi e)kalou=nto. kai\ *au)to/xqwn, th=s au)th=s po/lews.
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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