Ὁρκάνη

enclosure

Translated by David Whitehead12 Dec 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 46 words
Lycurgus [in the] second [speech] Against Lykophron [sc. uses the word].1 Perhaps the fence, that is the surrounding-fence and the wall, is so called from [the verb] to restrain, e)ru/kein, or from its being a fence [e(/rkos]. Homer [writes]: "having gathered stones for the vineyard herkos".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὁρκάνη· Λυκοῦργος κατὰ Λυκόφρονος βʹ. μήποτε ὁ φραγμός, τουτέστι τὸ περίφραγμα καὶ ἡ αἱμασιά, οὕτως καλεῖται. παρὰ τὸ ἐρύκειν, ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἕρκος εἶναι. Ὅμηρος· αἱμασιὰς λέξαντες ἀλωῆς ἔμμεναι ἕρκος.

Betacode
*(orka/nh: *lukou=rgos kata\ *luko/fronos b#. mh/pote o( fragmo/s, toute/sti to\ peri/fragma kai\ h( ai(masia/, ou(/tws kalei=tai. para\ to\ e)ru/kein, h)\ para\ to\ e(/rkos ei)=nai. *(/omhros: ai(masia\s le/cantes a)lwh=s e)/mmenai e(/rkos.

Notes (2)

  1. Harpokration s.v., exactly reproduced. See also Photius, Lexicon omicron481 Theodoridis, and similarly elsewhere.
    cf. generally omicron 590.
  2. 1Lycurgus fr. 76 Conomis. ↩
  3. 2Homer, Odyssey 24.224 (web address 1). ↩

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