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Ἀζηνιεύς · Azenieus, Azenia-man (α 594) · Suda

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Near α594

α590unenviable
α591loss-free
α592penalty-free, with impunity
α593Azenas
α594Azenieus, Azenia-man
α595undry
α596dries out, parches
α597Azesia
α598uninvestigated

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Ἀζηνιεύς

Azenieus, Azenia-man

Translated by Carl Widstrand2 Feb 2000Vetting: high9 revisions

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4 notes · 48 words

Translation

Azenia is a deme of the Hippothoontid tribe,¹ of which a tribesman² was called Azenieus.
They say that the people of Attica of ancient times pronounced Azenians and Erchians and Halians³ and the like with a rough breathing: Polemon in the [writings] In response to Adaios and Antigonos⁴.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀζηνιεύς· Ἀζηνία δῆμος ἐστὶ φυλῆς τῆς Ἱπποθοωντίδος, ἀφ' ἧς ὁ φυλέτης Ἀζηνιεύς. καὶ Ἀζηνιεῖς καὶ Ἐρχιεῖς καὶ Ἁλιεῖς καὶ πάντα τὰ ὅμοια δασέως φασὶ φθέγγεσθαι τοὺς Ἀττικοὺς τοὺς παλαιοὺς Πολέμων ἐν τοῖς πρὸς Ἀδαῖον καὶ Ἀντίγονον.

Betacode

*)azhnieu/s: *)azhni/a dh=mos e)sti\ fulh=s th=s *(ippoqownti/dos, a)f' h(=s o( fule/ths *)azhnieu/s. kai\ *)azhniei=s kai\ *)erxiei=s kai\ *(aliei=s kai\ pa/nta ta\ o(/moia dase/ws fasi\ fqe/ggesqai tou\s *)attikou\s tou\s palaiou\s *pole/mwn e)n toi=s pro\s *)adai=on kai\ *)anti/gonon.

Notes (4)

The headword is the demotikon (deme-name) for the small Attic deme Azenia. Source for this opening paragraph: Harpokration s.v., commenting on the headword's appearance in Aeschines 3.139.
1For the tribal eponym Hippothoon see iota 558 (and OCD s.v.). Strabo (9.398) appears to locate this deme at the southern tip of Attica, but his text is conventionally emended from Azenieis to Ateneis (Der kleine Pauly, 1. Stuttgart 1964, s.v.); if that is correct, little evidence remains for locating Azenia (though J.S. Traill, Demos and Trittys (Toronto 1986) 137 with n.40 makes a tentative suggestion). ↩
2An error (also in some other entries of this kind) for demesman. ↩
3Erchia and Halai are two other demes in Attica. E. belonged to the Aegeid tribe, Halai to either Aigeis (H. Araphenides) or Kekropis (H. Aixonides). See generally J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) appendix D, at p.124. ↩
4Polemon fr.65 Preller. Polemon's book of this name is a diatribe against Adaios and Antigonos, writers about art and crafts at the court of King Attalus. (For Adaios (alpha 431) of Mytilene see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.606A-B (13.84 Kaibel); Der Kleine Pauly, 4, Munich 1972 s.v. Polemon(4) and Adaios(3).)

References

E. L. von Leutsch and F.G. Schneidewin, (eds) Corpus Paroemigraphorum Graecorum. Goettingen 1839-51
C.W.J. Eliot, Coastal Demes of Attika (Toronto 1962) 125-6
D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v.

Linked from2 entries

α431Ἀδαῖονunfired, Adaios, Adaeus[Meaning] unburnt. Also [sc. attested is] Adaios, a proper name.
α593ἈζηνᾶςAzenasProper name. Also [sc. attested is] Azeneus.

Neighbouring entries

α592Ἀζήμιοςpenalty-free, with impunity α593ἈζηνᾶςAzenas α594ἈζηνιεύςAzenieus, Azenia-man α595Ἄζηροςundry α596Ἀζηρεῖdries out, parches

Revision history9 revisions · last 29 Apr 2015

29 Apr 2015 — David Whitehead
14 Jan 2015tweaked a ref — David Whitehead
13 Jan 2015coding — Catharine Roth
20 Jul 2011more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
10 Jun 2003augmented initial note; added x-refs and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 Sep 2000modified translation and notes — David Whitehead
15 Aug 2000Altered wording, entered headword. — Catharine Roth
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2 Feb 2000Translated — Carl Widstrand

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀζηνιεύς (Adler number alpha 594), trans. Carl Widstrand, 2 Feb 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/594

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