Πρεσβύτερος Κόδρου

more aged than Kodros

Translated by Ronald Allen25 Jan 2011Vetting: high9 revisions

4 notes · 53 words
Meaning older [sc. than him].1 A proverb applying to the extremely old.2 From the Kodros who was king in Athens.3
Also attested is [sc. the neuter plural] presbu/tera ["more important, higher, elder, more venerable"], [meaning] those [things] more honored. "But the army was saying that they had made their own [sc. possessions] superior."4

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πρεσβύτερος Κόδρου· ἀντὶ τοῦ παλαιότερος. παροιμία ἐπὶ τῶν πάνυ παλαιῶν. ἀπὸ τοῦ βασιλεύσαντος Ἀθήνησι Κόδρου. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Πρεσβύτερα, τὰ τιμιώτερα. ἡ δὲ στρατιὰ ἔλεγε τὰ ἑαυτῆς πρεσβύτερα ποιήσασθαι.

Betacode
*presbu/teros *ko/drou: a)nti\ tou= palaio/teros. paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n pa/nu palaiw=n. a)po\ tou= basileu/santos *)aqh/nhsi *ko/drou. le/getai de\ kai\ *presbu/tera, ta\ timiw/tera. h( de\ stratia\ e)/lege ta\ e(auth=s presbu/tera poih/sasqai.

Notes (4)

  1. The adjectival form in the lemma is a comparative, in the masculine nominative singular, deriving from the noun pre/sbus, -ews, -eos, o( (old man); see generally LSJ s.v. and cf. pi 2257. On Kodros, see n. 3 below. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that this passage was omitted by ms A, but restored within the margin by the transcriber of Parisinus 2626.]
  2. 1cf. a scholion (= D scholia) to Homer, Iliad 9.60 (web address 1). ↩
  3. 2This additional gloss is the same as given by Hesychius. It was omitted by ms F (so Adler). ↩
  4. 3Kodros (fl. C11 BCE?) was a legendary king of Athens; see OCD4 s.v. Codrus, epsilon 3391, and kappa 1908. This and the previous gloss (n. 2) are the same as given in Photius, Lexicon pi1156 Theodoridis, q.v. for further references. [Adler reports that ms F omitted this remark.] ↩
  5. 4Quotation -- already more fully at pi 2257, q.v. -- unidentifiable. [The quotation was omitted by ms F (so Adler).] ↩

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π2256Πρεσβυτερεῖονpresbytery, presbyterateπ2257Πρεσβύτεροςelder, higher, more venerable, superiorπ2258Πρεσβύτερος Κόδρουmore aged than Kodrosπ2259Πρευμενήςgentle, gracious, soft-temperedπ2260Πρηγορεῶνοςcrop's; of a crop
Revision history9 revisions · last 29 Oct 2021
  1. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  2. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  3. coding — David Whitehead
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. Revised — David Whitehead
  6. tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
  8. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  9. tweaks, status — Catharine Roth
  10. Translated — Ronald Allen

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