Ποτινίσεται

Notes (1)

1. The headword is the present indicative, third person singular, of the epic and Doric verb potini/somai (Attic pros-), I come to/go to; see generally LSJ s.v., Cunliffe s.v., and Buck, pp. 107-8. The entry is doubtless generated from the only attestation of the headword form: Homer, Iliad 9.381 (web address 1). There Achilles insists that he will not entertain Agamemnon's offer even should it amount to as much wealth as comes in to Orchomenos↗ (an affluent ancient Mycenean Greek city in Boiotia, whose riches and greatness peaked about C13 BCE; Barrington Atlas map 57 grid A3; cf. omicron 674 and OCD(4) s.v. Orchomenus(1)); Hainsworth, pp. 112-3. NB: elsewhere -- in the scholia to the line (see next note), in quotations of it by Strabo and Pausanias, and in other lexica -- the form transmitted is potini/ssetai. On the question of single or double sigma, see LSJ s.v. ni/ssomai (web address 2).
1. 1The gloss (that of the Homeric scholia: D scholia and scholia vetera) is the present indicative, third person singular, of the verb e)pe/rxomai, I come upon; see LSJ s.v. ↩