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Headword:
Apocheirotonêthênai
Adler number: alpha,3649
Translated headword: to be voted down, to be rejected
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with a genitive. [Meaning] to be turned down, to be rejected as unfit.
Aristophanes [writes]: "bringing to the city a basket full of peace-offerings she [= the goddess Peace] was rejected three times in the assembly."[1] For in the time of Kleonymos, when Spartan envoys had come, there was dissent in the assembly, when Kleon spoke against [them].[2]
And elsewhere: "Philippicus was rejected straightway and the king appointed Comentiolus general."[3]
Apocheirotonêthênai: genikêi. apostraphênai, apodokimasthênai. Aristophanês: spondôn pherousa têi polei kistên plean apocheirotonêthênai tris en têi ekklêsiai. epi Kleônumou gar presbeusamenôn Lakedaimoniôn estasiasan en têi ekklêsiai, anteipontos Kleônos. kai authis: ho de Philippikos apocheirotoneitai parautika kai Komentiolon ho basileus stratêgon anistêsin.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Peace 666-667 (web address 1 below). Comment from the
scholia there follows: see next note.
[2] A debased version -- for "Kleonymos" read Kleon -- of
Philochorus FGrH 328 F128, on events of 425/4 BCE (cf.
Thucydides 4.41.3-4).
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.5.16; again at
kappa 1990.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 9 August 2001@23:01:32.
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