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Headword:
*)orfanistw=n
Adler number: omicron,652
Translated headword: [of] orphan-guardians
Vetting Status: high
Translation: *)orfanistai/ are those rearing the orphans. Or
o)rfanistai/, a magistracy at
Athens which judged the affairs of orphans.[1] Or
o)rfanistw=n, of those responsible for the care of orphans. "Under unloving orphan-guardians, what an evil [...]."[2]
Greek Original:*)orfanistw=n: o)rfanistai/ ei)sin oi( tou\s o)rfanou\s tre/fontes. h)\ o)rfanistai/, a)rxh\ *)aqh/nhsi ta\ tw=n o)rfanw=n kri/nousa. h)\ o)rfanistw=n, tw=n th=s o)rfani/as e)pitro/pwn. u(p' o)rfanistw=n mh\ fi/lwn, o(/son kako/n.
Notes:
The headword is in the genitive plural, as in the quotation from
Sophocles.
[1] (No such magistracy at
Athens is otherwise attested, but LSJ s.v. notes something of the kind at
Selymbria.) Similarly in
Photius,
Lexicon omicron537 Theodoridis.
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 512 (web address 1), and scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: children; constitution; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; law; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 February 2004@00:28:14.
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