Ἀπόπτολις

banished from the city

Translated by Jennifer Benedict2 Jun 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

6 words

[Meaning one who is] solitary, city-less.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀπόπτολις· ἔρημος, ἄπολις.

Betacode

*)apo/ptolis: e)/rhmos, a)/polis.

The headword adjective is a tragedic variant of a)po/polis. It is glossed here as in the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 208, where it occurs.