Πεπορπημένος
pinned up
Translated by William Hutton22 Sep 2011Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] wrapped around with a double cloak, held together with a pin,1 so that it does not slip off the shoulders. [The word] is attested in Lycurgus in his [speech] Against Timocrates [sic]: "one could see then throughout the city those of the men who had let themselves go in their bodies and were older in years and released from campaigning by the laws wasting away 'on the road to old age', [sc. yet] pinned up in their double cloaks."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πεπορπημένος· ἱμάτιον διπλοῦν περικείμενος, πόρπῃ συνεχόμενον, ὡς μὴ ἀφίστασθαι τῶν ὤμων. κεῖται παρὰ Λυκούργῳ ἐν τῷ κατὰ Τιμοκράτους· τῶν δ' ἀνδρῶν τοὺς τοῖς σώμασιν ἀπειρηκότας καὶ ταῖς ἡλικίαις πρεσβυτέρους καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν νόμων τοῦ στρατεύεσθαι ἀφειμένους ἰδεῖν ἦν καθ' ὅλην τὴν πόλιν τότ' ἐπὶ γήρως ὀδῷ περιφθειρομένους, διπλᾶ ἱμάτια ἐμπεπορπημένους.
Betacode
*peporphme/nos: i(ma/tion diplou=n perikei/menos, po/rph| sunexo/menon, w(s mh\ a)fi/stasqai tw=n w)/mwn. kei=tai para\ *lukou/rgw| e)n tw=| kata\ *timokra/tous: tw=n d' a)ndrw=n tou\s toi=s sw/masin a)peirhko/tas kai\ tai=s h(liki/ais presbute/rous kai\ u(po\ tw=n no/mwn tou= strateu/esqai a)feime/nous i)dei=n h)=n kaq' o(/lhn th\n po/lin to/t' e)pi\ gh/rws o)dw=| perifqeirome/nous, dipla= i(ma/tia e)mpeporphme/nous.
Notes (2)
- The headword is perfect middle/passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of
porpa/w . It is otherwise unattested; the quotation given here contains a compound form of the participlee)mpeporphme/nous ("pinned up in"), i.e. masculine accusative plural.
For the nounpo/rph , see pi 2091. - 1For this phrase cf. under Hesychius sigma3034. ↩
- 2Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 40. The point being made is that, after the defeat at Chaironeia (338 BCE), even old men were dressing as if for combat. ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 23 Sep 2013
- another note; tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaked and expanded notes; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- expanded note, added cross-reference, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton