Ἀποκήρυκτον
disenfranchised, disinherited, renounced
Translated by Jennifer Benedict24 Oct 2001Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
[Meaning someone or something] alien.1
"One simply saying that the disenfranchised are worthless might seem to be saying that they are such of necessity; this indeed is not the case. For it is possible that someone who is not that sort of person has become disenfranchised. At any rate they say that Themistocles became disenfranchised; he indeed was not worthless."2
Also [sc. attested is]a)pokhru/ttontes ["they disenfranchising"], [meaning they] selling. Thus Demosthenes and Plato [sc. use the word].3
But others say that "alienated" [e)kpoi/hton ] differs from "disinherited" [a)pokh/rukton ], because someone disinherited is cast out as punishment, but someone alienated is publicly given by his natural father into a different household.4
"One simply saying that the disenfranchised are worthless might seem to be saying that they are such of necessity; this indeed is not the case. For it is possible that someone who is not that sort of person has become disenfranchised. At any rate they say that Themistocles became disenfranchised; he indeed was not worthless."2
Also [sc. attested is]
But others say that "alienated" [