Ἐσχατιάν
extremity, farthest part
Translated by Marcelo Boeri9 Nov 2003Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning an] ultimate place of earth/land. Or those regions which have pasturages, as Aristotle also says in [book] 8 of Politics.1
[Note] that the [nouns] meaning collection and property are all oxytone:a)xurmia/ ['chaff'], futalia/ ['planted place'],2 purkai+a/ ['funeral pyre'],3 a)nqrakia/ ['charcoal-burning'],4 e)sxatia/ ['farthest part']. Thus too trasia/ ['drying place']:5 it is a place where there is a quantity of dried figs or cheese or whatever. And the word ai(masia/ ['dry-stone wall']6 is also thus from contingency.7 The [words] e)cesi/a ['embassy'], o(si/a ['divine worship'] are no contradiction in practice.
[Note] that the [nouns] meaning collection and property are all oxytone: