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Headword:
*pre/sbis
Adler number: pi,2252
Translated headword: ambassador, envoy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [pre/sbis], [genitive] pre/sbews, [accented] as a proparoxytone. But certainly not from the nominative presbeu/s; for those who say [so] are mistaken.[1]
Also[2] attested are both [the genitive plurals] pre/sbewn and presbeutw=n, each in the orators. But the former is customary and observant of a Greek analogy, whenever they say pre/sbeis ["ambassadors"]. We also find [sc. attested] presbeuta/s.[3]
Greek Original:*pre/sbis, pre/sbews, proparocuto/nws. ou)xi\ de\ a)po\ th=s presbeu\s eu)qei/as: oi( ga\r le/gontes a(marta/nousi. le/getai de\ kai\ *pre/sbewn kai\ *presbeutw=n, e(kate/rws para\ toi=s r(h/torsin. e)/sti de\ to\ me\n kaqwmilhme/non kai\ *(ellhnikh\n a)nalogi/an sw=|zon, o(/tan ei)/pwsi pre/sbeis. eu(ri/skomen de\ kai\ presbeuta/s.
Notes:
The headword is a masculine noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see generally LSJ s.v.
pre/sbis (A). It is presumably generated from its occurrence in the genitive singular at
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 93 (see next note): Dicaeopolis expresses the sarcastic wish that a crow might peck out the eye of Pseudo-Artabas and
of the ambassador as well.
The genitive's proparoxytone (on the antepenult) accent, noted by the Suda, is an exception; cf. Smyth 163 and another instance of this declension at
kappa 1021.
[1] Following the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 93 (web address 1), which contend that
pre/sbews is the genitive case for
pre/sbis, not for
presbeu/s; cf.
Grammatici Graeci, pp. 232-3.
[2] The material that now follows =
Photius, Lexicon pi1152 Theodoridis, on the genitive plural forms of the masculine nouns
presbeu/s and
presbeuth/s (
ambassador, envoy); see generally LSJ s.vv. It is unclear why oratory is specified: both these forms, esp. the first, are commonplace elsewhere too.
[3] This common form is the accusative plural of the aforementioned masculine noun
presbeuth/s.
References:
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956
Grammatici Graeci, vol. IV, parts 1&2, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1965
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; politics; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 2 August 2011@00:38:35.
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