Ἀποχρᾶν
to satisfy
Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 Jun 2001Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to suffice.1 Herodotus [sc. uses the word].2
Also [sc. attested is the related participle]a)poxrw=n ["being satisfactory"], [meaning] sufficing.
"Having cheered [them] in other respects, and [saying] that it would be satisfactory for his entourage to buy the supplies at the going price."3
Also [sc. attested is]a)poxrw/shs ["of what is satisfactory"], [meaning] of what suffices.4
Also [sc. attested is the related participle]
"Having cheered [them] in other respects, and [saying] that it would be satisfactory for his entourage to buy the supplies at the going price."3
Also [sc. attested is]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀποχρᾶν· ἐξαρκεῖν. Ἡρόδοτος. καὶ Ἀποχρῶν, ἐξαρκοῦν. τοῖς τε ἄλλοις ἐπάρας, καὶ ὅτι ἀποχρῶν ἔσται τοῖς ἀμφ' αὑτὸν ὠνεῖσθαι τὰ ἐπιτήδεια τῆς ξυμβαινούσης τιμῆς. καὶ Ἀποχρώσης, ἀρκούσης.
Betacode
*)apoxra=n: e)carkei=n. *(hro/dotos. kai\ *)apoxrw=n, e)carkou=n. toi=s te a)/llois e)pa/ras, kai\ o(/ti a)poxrw=n e)/stai toi=s a)mf' au(to\n w)nei=sqai ta\ e)pith/deia th=s cumbainou/shs timh=s. kai\ *)apoxrw/shs, a)rkou/shs.
Notes (3)
- [1] cf. alpha 3653.↩
- 2Adler tentatively suggests Herodotus 1.66.1 (web address 1 below). ↩
- 3Arrian, incerta fr. 13 Roos-Wirth; cf. epsilon 1977 and xi 102. ↩
- 4Feminine genitive singular of the same participle, evidently quoted from somewhere.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α3107Ἀπεχρᾶτοwas satisfiedHerodotus [sc. uses this word] to mean he/she/it thought sufficient. But Thucydides [sc. uses the plural] a)pexrw=nto to mean they destroyed.
- α3108Ἀπέχρηwas sufficient[Meaning it] was enough.
- α3653Ἀπόχρηsatisfies[Used] with a dative. [Meaning] is sufficient.
- α3655Ἀποχρώντωςsatisfactorily[Meaning] sufficiently. Adequately. Aristophanes in Broilers [writes]: "but to crown; for you are of a satisfactory age already." "He was a formidable man and had been satisfactorily educated."
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