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Ἐπίτιμον · worthy, enfranchised (ε 2701) · 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

Near ε2701

ε2697additional-valuers
ε2698being enfranchised, possession of civic rights
ε2699rewards
ε2700rewards
ε2701worthy, enfranchised
ε2702worthy
ε2703raising the value
ε2704I lay a penalty on, I put a value on
ε2705suckling

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε2701

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Ἐπίτιμον

worthy, enfranchised

Translated by William Hutton11 Dec 2007Vetting: high5 revisions

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3 notes · 47 words

Translation

[Meaning] rich; or someone not unworthy [or: not disenfranchised].¹ Lucian [writes]: "the council, being bowled over by him, dismisses the conviction against Menecrates, and now he is enfranchised."²
"They voted the slaves free and the disfranchised enfranchised and the metics citizens and that the debtors be released."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπίτιμον· πλούσιον· ἢ τὸν μὴ ἄτιμον. Λουκιανός· ἡ βουλὴ δὲ ἐπικλασθεῖσα πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀφίησι τῷ Μενεκράτει τὴν καταδίκην, καὶ ἤδη ἐπίτιμός ἐστιν. τούς τε δούλους ἐλευθέρους καὶ τοὺς ἀτίμους ἐπιτίμους καὶ τοὺς μετοίκους πολίτας καὶ τοὺς ὀφείλοντας ἀφεῖσθαι ἐψηφίσαντο.

Betacode

*)epi/timon: plou/sion: h)\ to\n mh\ a)/timon. *loukiano/s: h( boulh\ de\ e)piklasqei=sa pro\s au)to\n a)fi/hsi tw=| *menekra/tei th\n katadi/khn, kai\ h)/dh e)pi/timo/s e)stin. tou/s te dou/lous e)leuqe/rous kai\ tou\s a)ti/mous e)piti/mous kai\ tou\s metoi/kous poli/tas kai\ tou\s o)fei/lontas a)fei=sqai e)yhfi/santo.

Notes (3)

The headword and the initial glosses are masculine accusative singular, whereas the two quotations given contain, respectively, the masculine nominative singular and masculine accusative plural forms of the headword adjective. (For the masculine nominative singular see also epsilon 2702.) The headword must be extracted from somewhere, quite possibly Attic oratory; there are extant possibilities in Isaeus, Demosthenes and Aeschines.
In the quotations that follow, the words "worthy" and "unworthy" have the specialized legal connotation of "(en)franchised" and "disfranchised" and are translated accordingly; cf. epsilon 2698. That specialized meaning might in fact be what is intended in the second gloss on the headword.
1Hesychius epsilon5341 has the first of these gloss (plou/sion) followed by two others (timwr/on, timhton). The Synagoge (epsilon760) and Photius (Lexicon epsilon1762) gloss exactly as here; and cf. also Etymologicum Magnum 366.33-35. ↩
2Lucian, Toxaris 26 (also in the Synagoge and Photius: see preceding note). The council, in the anecdote being related, is the oligarchic Six Hundred of Massalia (mu 242). ↩
3Precise quotation unidentifiable, but evidently relating to a set of momentous decisions by the Athenians -- never actually implemented -- in the post-Chaironeia crisis of 338/7 BCE, when they feared obliteration by the victorious forces of Philip II of Macedon. The Suda's quotation might be from that era (the closest surviving parallel is Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 41), but it could equally well be from a sophistic reworking of the argument (cf. Valerius Apsines 342, Rhetores Graeci (Walz) 4.707-8, 7.781, for the interest among late rhetoricians in the trope).

Linked from1 entry

ε2702Ἐπίτιμοςworthy[Meaning] one who is esteemed, and not unworthy.

Neighbouring entries

ε2699Ἐπιτίμιαrewards ε2700Ἐπιτίμιαrewards ε2701Ἐπίτιμονworthy, enfranchised ε2702Ἐπίτιμοςworthy ε2703Ἐπιτιμῶσαraising the value

Revision history5 revisions · last 1 Feb 2016

1 Feb 2016expanded initial notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
21 Oct 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
11 Dec 2007tweaked tr — David Whitehead
11 Dec 2007tweaks to translation, augmented notes — William Hutton
11 Dec 2007augmented headword, notes, keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
11 Dec 2007Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπίτιμον (Adler number epsilon 2701), trans. William Hutton, 11 Dec 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2701

Translation by William Hutton 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 ↗