Ναυκραρία
naukrary, naucrary
Translated by David Whitehead10 Dec 2000Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Timocrates [sc. uses the word].1 But perhaps, in the Atticizing writers, it is better taken as naukratitika/ ["of Naukratis"], so that [the adjective] would stem from a Naukratite vessel, or Naukratite voyagers. For Naukratis was, of old, a trading-post in Egypt. But if [the correct reading] is *naukrarika/ , that would be "of the archons"; for long ago they used to call the archons nau/kraroi , as Herodotos shows in [book] five of his Histories.2
Perhaps the termnaukrarika/ comes from the tip [krai=ra ] of a ship [nau=s ].
Perhaps the term
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ναυκραρία· Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Τιμοκράτους. μήποτε δὲ βέλτιον φέρεται ἐν τοῖς Ἀττικιανοῖς Ναυκρατιτικά, ἵνα ᾖ ἀπὸ Ναυκρατιτικοῦ πλοίου, ἢ Ναυκρατιτῶν ἐμπλεόντων. ἡ γὰρ Ναύκρατις τοπαλαιὸν ἐμπόριον ἦν τῆς Αἰγύπτου. ἐὰν δὲ ᾖ Ναυκραρικά, εἴη ἂν τὰ τῶν ἀρχόντων. ναυκράρους γὰρ τοπαλαιὸν τοὺς ἄρχοντας ἔλεγον, ὡς καὶ Ἡρόδοτος ἐν εʹ ἱστοριῶν δηλοῖ. ἴσως παρὰ τὴν τῆς νηὸς κραῖραν εἴρηται τὸ ναυκραρικά.
Betacode
*naukrari/a: *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| kata\ *timokra/tous. mh/pote de\ be/ltion fe/retai e)n toi=s *)attikianoi=s *naukratitika/, i(/na h)=| a)po\ *naukratitikou= ploi/ou, h)\ *naukratitw=n e)mpleo/ntwn. h( ga\r *nau/kratis topalaio\n e)mpo/rion h)=n th=s *ai)gu/ptou. e)a\n de\ h)=| *naukrarika/, ei)/h a)\n ta\ tw=n a)rxo/ntwn. naukra/rous ga\r topalaio\n tou\s a)/rxontas e)/legon, w(s kai\ *(hro/dotos e)n e# i(storiw=n dhloi=. i)/sws para\ th\n th=s nho\s krai=ran ei)/rhtai to\ naukrarika/.
Notes (2)
- The first paragraph of this entry comes from Harpokration s.v.
naukrarika/ . In the Suda, as already in Photius (nu38 Theodoridis), the headword has becomenaukrari/a , which makes less sense of the suggestion in the entry that the word be emended to*naukratitika/ in Atticizing writers.
For Naukratis cf. nu 58. - 1Demosthenes 24.11, where
*naukratika/ -- see below -- is generally printed (web address 1). ↩ - 2Herodotus 5.71.2 (web address 2). ↩
References
OCD(4) 1001
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
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- ο56Ὀδύνηpain, distress[Meaning] suffering.
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