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Ἀπρότων · gangsters (α 3704) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

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α3700unstumbling, offence-free; unseeing, unexplored
α3701irresistible (ones)
α3702faceless
α3703having no patron
α3704gangsters
α3705dowry-less
α3706un-trip-prone
α3707must be grasped
α3708to touch

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Ἀπρότων

gangsters

Translated by David Whitehead8 Oct 2000Vetting: high8 revisions

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2 notes · 32 words

Translation

Dinarchus in the [speech] Against Pytheas [writes]: "with the orators having leapt like gangsters into the port".¹ In certain [copies], though, "like parnopes" is written. But parnopes [are] a kind of locust.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀπρότων· Δείναρχος ἐν τῷ κατὰ Πυθέου· ἐμπεπηδηκότων τῶν ῥητόρων ὥσπερ ἀπρότων εἰς τὸ ἐμπόριον. ἔν τισι δὲ ὥσπερ παρνόπων γέγραπται. οἱ δὲ πάρνοπες εἶδος ἀκρίδος.

Betacode

*)apro/twn: *dei/narxos e)n tw=| kata\ *puqe/ou: e)mpephdhko/twn tw=n r(hto/rwn w(/sper a)pro/twn ei)s to\ e)mpo/rion. e)/n tisi de\ w(/sper parno/pwn ge/graptai. oi( de\ pa/rnopes ei)=dos a)kri/dos.

Notes (2)

The headword, a genitive plural, is attested only in lexicography: see below.
The entry is taken (with some abridgement: see n.1 below) from Harpokration, and all subsequent appearances of the word may result from attempts to etymologize the word from the entry in Harpokration. The translation of it tentatively offered here (by WEH) is derived from an entry found in both Photius and the Lexica Segueriana, Collecto verborum utilium s.v. a)/proton, which is the only meaning offered that seems to make sense in the context; cf. also Etymologicum Magnum s.v. a)bro/th, a)bro/twn; Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. a)bro/twn; Lexica Segueriana, Glossae rhetoricae s.v. a)bro/twn, Collectio verborum utilium s.v. a)pro/twn.
1Dinarchus fr. VI.3 Conomis. Following this extract Harpokration says: "perhaps a scribal error, and 'like pirates [lh|stw=n]' should be written." ↩
2See pi 683.

Neighbouring entries

α3702Ἀπρόσωπονfaceless α3703Ἀπροστασίουhaving no patron α3704Ἀπρότωνgangsters α3705Ἄπροικονdowry-less α3706Ἄπταιστοςun-trip-prone

Revision history8 revisions · last 30 Aug 2015

30 Aug 2015tweaking — David Whitehead
9 Apr 2012typos — David Whitehead
30 Jun 2011tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
24 Jun 2003cosmetics — David Whitehead
24 Jun 2003modified headword, expanded notes, set status — William Hutton
23 Aug 2002supplied headword; augmented note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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8 Oct 2000Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀπρότων (Adler number alpha 3704), trans. David Whitehead, 8 Oct 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3704

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, William Hutton, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗