[Meaning him] departing from.[1]
"Not so having been disturbed and having utterly lost their bearing, but through an excess of sufferings they ascribed to Julian[2] [sc. the cruelty of] Eutropius."[3]
Eunapius says [this] about Eutropius the eunuch.
"Yet [he] having been moved aside from what was appropriate."[4]
*parakinou=nta: e)cista/menon. ou)x ou(/tw parakekinhko/tes kai\ diefqarme/noi th\n gnw/mhn, a)lla\ dia\ th\n u(peroxh\n tw=n kakw=n e)s *)iouliano\n to\n *eu)tro/pion a)natiqe/menoi. *eu)na/pio/s fhsi peri\ *eu)tropi/ou tou= eu)nou/xou. kai/toi parakinhqei\s tou= prosh/kontos.
The headword is the present active participle, masculine accusative singular, of the verb
parakine/w (transitively
I move aside, but intransitively
I am disturbed/beside myself/mad); see generally LSJ s.v. In the form given the headword is absent from the rest of the entry, so it must be quoted from somewhere not specified; extant possibilities begin with
Menander,
Dyskolos 961).
[1] The gloss is the present middle/passive participle (here middle), masculine accusative singular, of the verb
e)ci/sthmi, (
I put out of my place); see LSJ s.v. The headword has the same glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius pi246 Theodoridis, though in Ph. himself the gloss is
e)cista/mena (i.e. the headword is construed as neuter plural.
[2] Flavius Claudius Iulianus 'the Apostate' (331-363 CE), was Roman emperor 361-363 CE; cf.
iota 437 and OCD(4) s.v. Julian.
[3]
Eunapius fr.75,5 FHG (4.47); cf. Blockley, pp. 106-7; Constantine Porphyrogenitus,
Excerpta de sententiis 95.17-8. Eutropius (
epsilon 3776,
epsilon 3777, and OCD(4) s.v. Eutropius(2)) was minister (395-399) of the emperor
Arcadius, who ruled in the east 383-408; cf. OCD(4) s.v.
Arcadius(2).
[4] Adler cites Symeon Metaphrastes,
Patrologia Graeca (ed. Migne) 114-116.
R.C. Blockley, The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus, vol. II, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983
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