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Ἐπιτροπή · arbitration, adjudication, guardianship (ε 2732) · Suda

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Near ε2732

ε2728afflicting, crushing
ε2729accursed, damned
ε2730at-one-third
ε2731to crush, to wear out
ε2732arbitration, adjudication, guardianship
ε2733I act as guardian
ε2734fluently, trippingly, volubly
ε2735you must be racked there on the wheel and declare your villainies
ε2736to just any people; to those who happen to be there; to people of no consequence; to those who happen to succeed

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε2732

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Ἐπιτροπή

arbitration, adjudication, guardianship

Translated by David Whitehead16 Mar 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

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2 notes · 24 words

Translation

[Meaning] aberration.¹
"Endeavouring to have himself sent to the Lapatenes and to talk about an adjudication, Lucius was unprepared for what the future held."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπιτροπή· παρατροπή. ὁ δὲ Λεύκιος προχειριζόμενος διαπέμπεσθαι πρὸς τοὺς Λαπατηνοὺς καὶ λαλεῖν ὑπὲρ ἐπιτροπῆς ἀπαράσκευος ἦν εἰς τὸ μέλλον.

Betacode

*)epitroph/: paratroph/. o( de\ *leu/kios proxeirizo/menos diape/mpesqai pro\s tou\s *lapathnou\s kai\ lalei=n u(pe\r e)pitroph=s a)para/skeuos h)=n ei)s to\ me/llon.

Notes (2)

cf. generally epsilon 2733.
1The headword is common in Polybius (cf. n.2), but neither there nor in other writers does it bear the attested sense of this glossing word. Perhaps its presence here is due to a misunderstanding of a discussion on the formation of nouns ending in -troph/ (cf. chi 461), or from a misreading of the sort of thing we find in Etymologicum Magnum 367.14: e)pitroph/: oi( me\n para\ to\ e)pitropeu/ein. ↩
2Polybius fr. 151 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (533-534) that Ursinus (Fulvio Orsini, 1529-1600) attributed this fragment to Polybius. Schweighäuser was doubtful about the attribution, but Büttner-Wobst accepts the fragment as genuinely Polybian (ibid.). Without a context it is unclear which 'Lucius' this is; and the 'Lapatenes' are otherwise unattested, but possibly connected with the headland called Lapatia Korou in NW Spain (Ptolemy 2.6.4, Barrington Atlas map 24 grid D1) or with a people named in a catalogue of Asian folk in the Alexander Romance (recension a) 1.2.2 (Kroll obelizes this word as corrupt, however). Walbank notes (752-753) that Schweighäuser tentatively suggested that the Lapateni might be the Ligurian Lapacini (Livy 41.19, web address 1).

References

T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, (Oxford 1979)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

ε2730Ἐπιτρίταιςat-one-third ε2731Ἐπιτρῖψαιto crush, to wear out ε2732Ἐπιτροπήarbitration, adjudication, guardianship ε2733ἘπιτροπεύωI act as guardian ε2734Ἐπιτροχάδηνfluently, trippingly, volubly

Revision history4 revisions · last 20 Sep 2018

20 Sep 2018expanded n.2, added bibliography, added map reference, added link — Ronald Allen
22 Oct 2012Revised — David Whitehead
17 Mar 2008x-ref — David Whitehead
16 Mar 2008tweaked headwords and tr., augmented notes, added keywords, set status — William Hutton
16 Mar 2008Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπιτροπή (Adler number epsilon 2732), trans. David Whitehead, 16 Mar 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2732

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