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Headword: *)epiw/yato
Adler number: epsilon,2504
Translated headword: chose, oversaw
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] designated, selected. It is an Attic [expression]:[1] "the king oversaw [the] arrhephoroi." That is, designated [them], selected [them]. Plato in Laws [sc. uses the word].[2]
Greek Original:
*)epiw/yato: kate/lecen, e)cele/cato. e)/sti d' *)attiko/n: o( basileu\s e)piw/yato a)rrhfo/rous. oi(=on kate/lecen, e)cele/cato. *pla/twn e)n *no/mois.
Notes:
[1] So far, the entry = Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 987a10 (who also adds 'Plato in Laws'); cf. [Didymos], De dubiis apud Platonem lectionibus 246.13. Adler also cites Lexicon Ambrosianum 1647.
[2] In Plato, Laws 12.947C, a regulation about a deceased's relatives choosing youths for the funeral procession uses the aorist subjunctive middle, third person plural, of this verb (e)pio/ywntai) and does not refer either to the arrhephoroi (cf. alpha 3863) or the Athenian archon known as the 'king', basileus. Plainly, therefore, the lexica cannot mean that the actual quotation given here comes from the Laws. Assigning it to the comic poet Plato (fr. 363 Kock, in the disputed category) creates problems and uncertainties of its own. The simplest and best solution is to classify the quotation as unidentifiable and regard the lexicographers' citation of Plato's Laws as applying simply to the use of this uncommon verb.
Keywords: children; comedy; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; law; philosophy; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 29 November 2007@09:53:02.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 30 November 2007@03:20:30.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 17 October 2012@07:21:10.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 29 August 2013@05:06:30.
David Whitehead (more of same) on 29 January 2016@08:57:38.

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