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Headword:
*)azhnieu/s
Adler number: alpha,594
Translated headword: Azenieus, Azenia-man
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Azenia is a deme of the Hippothoontid tribe,[1] of which a tribesman[2] was called Azenieus.
They say that the people of Attica of ancient times pronounced Azenians and Erchians and Halians[3] and the like with a rough breathing: Polemon in the [writings] In response to Adaios and Antigonos[4].
Greek Original:*)azhnieu/s: *)azhni/a dh=mos e)sti\ fulh=s th=s *(ippoqownti/dos, a)f' h(=s o( fule/ths *)azhnieu/s. kai\ *)azhniei=s kai\ *)erxiei=s kai\ *(aliei=s kai\ pa/nta ta\ o(/moia dase/ws fasi\ fqe/ggesqai tou\s *)attikou\s tou\s palaiou\s *pole/mwn e)n toi=s pro\s *)adai=on kai\ *)anti/gonon.
Notes:
The headword is the demotikon (deme-name) for the small Attic deme Azenia. Source for this opening paragraph: Harpokration s.v., commenting on the headword's appearance in
Aeschines 3.139.
[1] For the tribal eponym
Hippothoon see
iota 558 (and OCD s.v.).
Strabo (9.398) appears to locate this deme at the southern tip of Attica, but his text is conventionally emended from Azenieis to Ateneis (
Der kleine Pauly, 1. Stuttgart 1964, s.v.); if that is correct, little evidence remains for locating Azenia (though J.S. Traill,
Demos and Trittys (Toronto 1986) 137 with n.40 makes a tentative suggestion).
[2] An error (also in some other entries of this kind) for demesman.
[3] Erchia and
Halai are two other demes in Attica. E. belonged to the Aegeid tribe,
Halai to either Aigeis (H. Araphenides) or Kekropis (H. Aixonides). See generally J.S. Traill,
The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) appendix D, at p.124.
[4] Polemon fr.65 Preller. Polemon's book of this name is a diatribe against Adaios and Antigonos, writers about art and crafts at the court of King
Attalus. (For Adaios (
alpha 431) of
Mytilene see
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 13.606A-B (13.84 Kaibel);
Der Kleine Pauly, 4, Munich 1972 s.v. Polemon(4) and Adaios(3).)
References:
E. L. von Leutsch and F.G. Schneidewin, (eds) Corpus Paroemigraphorum Graecorum. Goettingen 1839-51
C.W.J. Eliot, Coastal Demes of Attika (Toronto 1962) 125-6
D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v.
Keywords: constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; rhetoric
Translated by: Carl Widstrand on 2 February 2000@11:38:43.
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