Ἀκέραιος

uncorrupted, intact, fresh, unblemished

Translated by Robert Dyer17 Dec 2001Vetting: high12 revisions

7 notes · 119 words

[Meaning] complete.¹
"Succeeding [sc. those who were] uncorrupted and not expecting, they controlled the land."²
And elsewhere: "but the honey, inasmuch as [it was] impure and drawn not from thorns but from serpents, upset the bowels."³
Polybius [writes]: "for they, being unconquered, had fought intact in body and spirit against them."⁴ Meaning confident.
"[He] wishing to use fresh troops against the attacks of the Celts."⁵ Meaning from a state of intactness.
And elsewhere: "but not being able to persuade [him] afresh because of the overcautiousness and inaction of the aforementioned king, he was forced to offer 500 talents. And so Seleucus agreed to help [him]."⁶
And elsewhere: "those wishing to take away his unblemished reputation began to ridicule him."⁷

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀκέραιος· ὁ ὁλόκληρος. ἀκεραίοις τε καὶ οὐ προσδεχομένοις ἐπιγενόμενοι τῆς γῆς ἐκράτουν. καὶ αὖθις· τὸ δὲ μέλι ἅτε οὐκ ἀκέραιον οὔτε ἀπὸ ἀκάνθων ἀλλ' ἀπὸ ἑρπετῶν συμπεπορισμένον ἀνέστρεφε τὰ σπλάγχνα. Πολύβιος· τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ἀηττήτους ὄντας ἐξ ἀκεραίου διηγωνίσθαι πρὸς σφᾶς. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐξ εὐκόλου. θέλων ἀκεραίοις χρήσασθαι ταῖς τῶν Κελτῶν ὁρμαῖς. ἐξ ὁλοκλήρου. καὶ αὖθις· οὐ δυνάμενος δὲ πείθειν ἐξ ἀκεραίου διὰ τὴν εὐλάβειαν καὶ ἀπραγίαν τοῦ προειρημένου βασιλέως ἠναγκάσθη φʹ τάλαντα προτεῖναι. καὶ δὴ συγκατέθετο βοηθήσειν ὁ Σέλευκος. καὶ αὖθις· οὐ βουλομένοι ἀκέραιον ἀπενεγκεῖν τὴν φήμην αὐτοῦ ἤρξαντο διασύρειν αὐτόν.

Betacode

*)ake/raios: o( o(lo/klhros. a)kerai/ois te kai\ ou) prosdexome/nois e)pigeno/menoi th=s gh=s e)kra/toun. kai\ au)=qis: to\ de\ me/li a(/te ou)k a)ke/raion ou)/te a)po\ a)ka/nqwn a)ll' a)po\ e(rpetw=n sumpeporisme/non a)ne/strefe ta\ spla/gxna. *polu/bios: tou\s me\n ga\r a)htth/tous o)/ntas e)c a)kerai/ou dihgwni/sqai pro\s sfa=s. a)nti\ tou= e)c eu)ko/lou. qe/lwn a)kerai/ois xrh/sasqai tai=s tw=n *keltw=n o(rmai=s. e)c o(loklh/rou. kai\ au)=qis: ou) duna/menos de\ pei/qein e)c a)kerai/ou dia\ th\n eu)la/beian kai\ a)pragi/an tou= proeirhme/nou basile/ws h)nagka/sqh f# ta/lanta protei=nai. kai\ dh\ sugkate/qeto bohqh/sein o( *se/leukos. kai\ au)=qis: ou) boulome/noi a)ke/raion a)penegkei=n th\n fh/mhn au)tou= h)/rcanto diasu/rein au)to/n.

Notes (7)

These examples illustrate the meaning of the word as 'undamaged, unaffected by wounds to body or spirit, unpolluted by extraneous matter' or 'in a state not affected by previous experiences or failures'. The adjective is not derived from the root of mixing seen in kera/nnumi but either from the word for 'blemishes' (see alpha 833) or from a root of damaging seen in kerai+/zw and khrai/nw. Chantraine connects it with kerai+/zw, but indicates that it has been influenced by kera/nnumi. He finds the relationship between a)ke/raios and a)kh/ratos unclear. The LSJ entry may be consulted at web address 1.
1Same gloss (for which cf. under alpha 833), according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. ↩
2Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
3Iamblichus fr. 16 Habrich. ↩
4Polybius 15.11.11 (web address 2; cf. 6.24.9, 9.31.1,6: a common phrase for the mental state, particularly of fresh troops, that has not yet been affected by loss and wounds). ↩
5Polybius 3.70.9 (web address 3). ↩
6Polybius fr. 96 Büttner-Wobst, known only here (and epsilon 1520); cf. 23.4.11, 38.7.8. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 527) that Ursinus (Fulvio Orsini, 1529-1600) deemed it Polybian, but that Schweighäuser doubted the attribution of this fragment to Polybius. Walbank suggests (p. 751) that a possible context for the fragment is Polybius 25.2.14 (web address 4). If this is correct, then the fragment details the moment in the war (179 BCE) of Eumenes (epsilon 3579) and Ariarathes (alpha 3869) against Pharnaces of Pontus (cf. OCD(4) s.v Pharnaces I; Pontus: Barrington Atlas map 87 grid B4) when the latter offered a bribe to Seleucus (IV Philopator, c.218-175 BCE (assassinated), cf. OCD(4) s.v. Seleucus(4)) so as to draw Seleucid troops into the conflict. Although Seleucus might have acquiesced, per the Suda, he apparently had second thoughts and did not break his existing agreement with the Romans (Walbank, p. 274; Gruen, p. 646). ↩
7Quotation unidentifiable. (Perhaps, though not not necessarily, from Polybius again.)

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References

Pierre Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 (Paris 2009) 45, 496
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, (Oxford 1979)
E.S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, (Berkeley, 1986)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 4 perseus.tufts.edu

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α834Ἀκέραιον συνειδόςunblemished consciousness, sound conscience α835Ἀκέραιονuncorrupted α836Ἀκέραιοςuncorrupted, intact, fresh, unblemished α837Ἀκεραιοσύνηunblemishedness α838Ἄκερως βοῦςhornless ox

Revision history12 revisions · last 12 Jun 2018

12 Jun 2018my typo, added keywords — Ronald Allen
11 Jun 2018added link, added bibliography, expanded n.6, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
11 Jun 2018bibliography format, cosmeticule; expanded n.6 — Ronald Allen
9 May 2018cosmeticule — Ronald Allen
4 May 2018added links, added to bibliography, augmented n.6 — Ronald Allen
19 Dec 2014my typo — David Whitehead
18 Dec 2014coding — Catharine Roth
23 Jan 2012augmented notes and keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
24 Aug 2011updated reference, cosmetics — Catharine Roth
27 May 2007more keywords — David Whitehead
22 Dec 2002added x-ref and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
23 Jan 2002augmented note, added link — Catharine Roth
17 Dec 2001Translated — Robert Dyer

Greek original · Adler’s text

Betacode

*)ake/raios: o( o(lo/klhros. a)kerai/ois te kai\ ou) prosdexome/nois e)pigeno/menoi th=s gh=s e)kra/toun. kai\ au)=qis: to\ de\ me/li a(/te ou)k a)ke/raion ou)/te a)po\ a)ka/nqwn a)ll' a)po\ e(rpetw=n sumpeporisme/non a)ne/strefe ta\ spla/gxna. *polu/bios: tou\s me\n ga\r a)htth/tous o)/ntas e)c a)kerai/ou dihgwni/sqai pro\s sfa=s. a)nti\ tou= e)c eu)ko/lou. qe/lwn a)kerai/ois xrh/sasqai tai=s tw=n *keltw=n o(rmai=s. e)c o(loklh/rou. kai\ au)=qis: ou) duna/menos de\ pei/qein e)c a)kerai/ou dia\ th\n eu)la/beian kai\ a)pragi/an tou= proeirhme/nou basile/ws h)nagka/sqh f# ta/lanta protei=nai. kai\ dh\ sugkate/qeto bohqh/sein o( *se/leukos. kai\ au)=qis: ou) boulome/noi a)ke/raion a)penegkei=n th\n fh/mhn au)tou= h)/rcanto diasu/rein au)to/n.

Notes (7)

These examples illustrate the meaning of the word as 'undamaged, unaffected by wounds to body or spirit, unpolluted by extraneous matter' or 'in a state not affected by previous experiences or failures'. The adjective is not derived from the root of mixing seen in kera/nnumi but either from the word for 'blemishes' (see alpha 833) or from a root of damaging seen in kerai+/zw and khrai/nw. Chantraine connects it with kerai+/zw, but indicates that it has been influenced by kera/nnumi. He finds the relationship between a)ke/raios and a)kh/ratos unclear. The LSJ entry may be consulted at web address 1.

1Same gloss (for which cf. under alpha 833), according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. ↩

2Quotation unidentifiable. ↩

3Iamblichus fr. 16 Habrich. ↩

4Polybius 15.11.11 (web address 2; cf. 6.24.9, 9.31.1,6: a common phrase for the mental state, particularly of fresh troops, that has not yet been affected by loss and wounds). ↩

5Polybius 3.70.9 (web address 3). ↩

6Polybius fr. 96 Büttner-Wobst, known only here (and epsilon 1520); cf. 23.4.11, 38.7.8. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 527) that Ursinus (Fulvio Orsini, 1529-1600) deemed it Polybian, but that Schweighäuser doubted the attribution of this fragment to Polybius. Walbank suggests (p. 751) that a possible context for the fragment is Polybius 25.2.14 (web address 4). If this is correct, then the fragment details the moment in the war (179 BCE) of Eumenes (epsilon 3579) and Ariarathes (alpha 3869) against Pharnaces of Pontus (cf. OCD(4) s.v Pharnaces I; Pontus: Barrington Atlas map 87 grid B4) when the latter offered a bribe to Seleucus (IV Philopator, c.218-175 BCE (assassinated), cf. OCD(4) s.v. Seleucus(4)) so as to draw Seleucid troops into the conflict. Although Seleucus might have acquiesced, per the Suda, he apparently had second thoughts and did not break his existing agreement with the Romans (Walbank, p. 274; Gruen, p. 646). ↩

7Quotation unidentifiable. (Perhaps, though not not necessarily, from Polybius again.)

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Translation

Greek original · Adler’s text

Notes (7)

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Translation

Greek original · Adler’s text

Notes (7)

References

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