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Ἀγριότης · wildness (α 361) · Suda

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α357looks at me angrily
α358wild-maker, wild-making
α359Agrios, Agrius
α360wild men
α361wildness
α362wild-eyed
α363Agrippa
α364agrippos
α365rake, harrow

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Ἀγριότης

wildness

Translated by Anne Mahoney28 Aug 1998Vetting: high8 revisions

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2 notes · 37 words

Translation

[Meaning] impulse.
"For an amazing motive force, it seems, pushing a man in this direction [is?] wildness."¹ In reference to a love of money.
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)griw/tatos ["most/very wild"], [meaning] someone untamed.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀγριότης· ὁρμή. θαυμαστὴ γάρ τις κίνησις, ὡς ἔοικε, τἀνθρώπου πρὸς τοῦτο τὸ μέρος ... ἀγριότης. ἐπὶ φιλαργυρίας. καὶ Ἀγριώτατος, ὁ ἀνήμερος.

Betacode

*)agrio/ths: o(rmh/. qaumasth\ ga/r tis ki/nhsis, w(s e)/oike, ta)nqrw/pou pro\s tou=to to\ me/ros ... a)grio/ths. e)pi\ filarguri/as. kai\ *)agriw/tatos, o( a)nh/meros.

Notes (2)

cf. generally alpha 358, alpha 359, alpha 360, alpha 362.
1Polybius fr. 93 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes that this fragment was accepted as Polybian by Toup (p. 527). In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that Toup replaced the ellipsis with kai\: kai\ a)grio/ths (wildness too). Büttner-Wobst further notes that Bernhardy suggested that a)grio/ths replaced ki/nhsis in the original text: For an amazing wildness, it seems (ibid.) ↩
2Same material, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.

References

T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)

Linked from1 entry

α2415Ἀνήμεροςuntamed[Meaning] wild.

Neighbouring entries

α359ἌγριοςAgrios, Agrius α360Ἀγρίουςwild men α361Ἀγριότηςwildness α362$10Ἀγριωπόςwild-eyed α363ἈγρίππαςAgrippa

Revision history8 revisions · last 6 Jun 2018

6 Jun 2018bibliographical form — Ronald Allen
1 May 2018cosmetics, augmented n.1, added bibliography — Ronald Allen
9 Apr 2015coding — Catharine Roth
9 Apr 2015another - mine — David Whitehead
19 Aug 2013typo — David Whitehead
8 Jan 2012augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
21 Sep 2003Modified translation. — Marcelo Boeri
13 Feb 2001added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
28 Aug 1998Translated — Anne Mahoney

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀγριότης (Adler number alpha 361), trans. Anne Mahoney, 28 Aug 1998. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/361

Translation by Anne Mahoney for Suda On Line, revised by Ronald Allen, Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, Marcelo Boeri, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗