Ἀγοραῖοι
marketplace [men]
Translated by Catharine Roth9 Mar 2001Vetting: high15 revisions
Translation
Has circumflex accent on the penultimate syllable; [meaning] men involved in a marketplace.1
Damascius [writes]: "[...] but he stood by and begged those who were defrauding, even including (?)skilled judges."2
But with the acute accent on the second syllablea)go/raios [is] the day on which the market is held.3
Damascius [writes]: "[...] but he stood by and begged those who were defrauding, even including (?)skilled judges."2
But with the acute accent on the second syllable
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀγοραῖοι· προπερισπωμένως· οἱ ἐν ἀγορᾷ ἀναστρεφόμενοι ἄνθρωποι. Δαμάσκιος· ὁ δὲ παρίστατο καὶ ἐξῄτει τοῖς ἀποστεροῦσι μέχρι καὶ δικαστῶν ἀγοραίων. προπαροξυτόνως δὲ Ἀγόραιος, ἡ ἡμέρα ἐν ᾗ ἡ ἀγορὰ τελεῖται.
Betacode
*)agorai=oi: properispwme/nws: oi( e)n a)gora=| a)nastrefo/menoi a)/nqrwpoi. *dama/skios: o( de\ pari/stato kai\ e)ch/|tei toi=s a)posterou=si me/xri kai\ dikastw=n a)gorai/wn. proparocuto/nws de\ *)ago/raios, h( h(me/ra e)n h(=| h( a)gora\ telei=tai.
Notes (2)
- [1] See LSJ s.v. and cf. generally alpha 308. The present nominative plural headword and substantive gloss ('men involved in a marketplace') also occur in other lexica (references at Photius alpha232 Theodoridis); Latte on Hesychius claims the headword as stemming from Acts 17.5 (genitive plural).↩
- 2Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 53 Zintzen (24 Asmus). A fuller version of the fragment is given at pi 658, where Adler notes several attempts, by her predecessors, to improve its wording. With or without them, the nature and identity of these dikastai agoraioi is unclear. ↩
- 3LSJ s.v., III 1, where the distinction of meaning between
a)go/raios "vulgar" anda)gorai=os "public speaker" is said to be fictitious. Note that section 2b is deleted by the LSJ Supplement. The shift of properispomenon to proparoxytone is a regular phenomenon of the Attic dialect, known as Vendryes' Law: see Kuehner-Blass #80 (web address 1); it is still possible, however, that the properispomenon form could have been restored in the productive category, where it is more closely asssociated witha)gora/ .
References
J. Kuryłowicz, L'accentuation des langues indo-européennes (Wrocław 1958) 159-161
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α186ἈγέλαιοςordinaryAs a proparoxytone [means] an "uneducated person"; but a)gelai=os [as a properispomenon] [means] "of the herd."
- α308Ἀγοραῖος νοῦςmarketplace mind[Meaning] the one altogether cheap and vulgar and not elite or thoughtful. Also [sc. attested is] Agoraios Hermes. Aristophanes [writes]: "by Hermes Agoraios, I look and I perjure myself." That is, [Hermes] who is…
- δ1102Δικορραφεῖνto lawsuit-stitch[Meaning] to sew together lawsuits; to be involved in the jurycourts.
- ε1512Ἐξ ἀγορᾶς εἶyou are from the marketMeaning [you are] a market-fellow. Aristophanes [writes]: "you are from the market, and bold".
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