[Meaning] partners.[1]
Xenophon [writes]: "Cyrus ordered that first-offerings and precincts be set out for the gods whom he considered to be participants in the accomplishments."[2]
And elsewhere: "[...] that he would bring his head and that of all who were participants with him in the flight."[3]
*koinw=nas: koinwnou/s. *cenofw=n: a)kroqi/nia toi=s qeoi=s kai\ teme/nh o( *ku=ros e)ke/leusen e)celei=n, ou(/sper koinw=nas e)nomi/zeto tw=n katapepragme/nwn. kai\ au)=qis: th\n kefalh\n au)tou= a)/cein, kai\ o(/soi koinw=nes au)tw=| th=s fugh=s e)ge/nonto.
The headword is accusative plural, presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] =
Synagoge,
Hesychius kappa3261. The gloss is practically equivalent to the headword, being a more common nominal derivative from the same root. The use of the latter is particularly associated in late-antique scholarship with
Xenophon (see
Pollux 8.134), and apart from the second quotation given here (see n. 3 below), all literary attestations are found in
Xenophon's
Cyropaedia: in addition to the quotation given here (n.2) see also 2.25.5, 7.5.36, 8.1.16, 8.1.26, 8.1.36, 8.1.40, all, as here, in the accusative plural apart from 8.1.26 (genitive plural). LSJ (web address 1) also notes papyrological attestations, such as one in the C3-BCE revenue laws of
Ptolemy Philadelphus (ed. B.P. Grenfell, Oxford 1896), 10.10.
[2]
Xenophon,
Cyropaedia 7.5.35 (web address 2).
[3] Tentatively attributed by Adler to either
Iamblichus or
Aelian; now
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr. 7 Habrich.
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