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Headword:
Apokarterêsanta
Adler number: alpha,3336
Translated headword: having killed oneself by abstinence
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning him] having taken himself out of life by starvation or by hanging.[1]
"[sc. It is said that]
Lycurgus the Spartan lawgiver, after laying down the laws, came into Crete and killed himself by abstinence, so that he would not be compelled to repeal them."[1]
And again: "
Anaxagoras arrived in
Lampsakos and killing himself by abstinence ended his life."[2]
Apokarterêsanta: heauton limôi ê anchonêi tou biou exagagonta. Lukourgon ton Lakedaimonion nomothetên meta to theinai tous nomous elthonta eis Krêtên apokarterêsai, hopôs mê autois anankastheiê lusai. kai authis: ho de Anaxagoras elthôn en Lampsakôi kai apokarterêsas ton bion katastrephei.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in other lexica. The headword participle, masculine accusative singular, must be quoted from somewhere (other than the quotations given below) -- probably
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 6.234A (6.24 Kaibel) [= part of
Posidonius fr. 402 Theiler], on Gylippos (
gamma 477) doing this after his conviction for embezzlement by the ephors.
[2] cf.
alpha 2988. On
Lycurgus, see
lambda 823,
lambda 824.
[3] cf.
alpha 1981.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 February 2002@20:59:00.
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