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Headword:
*)/akomyon
Adler number: alpha,921
Translated headword: unadorned, lacking in prestige
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] mean, ineffectual.
"A man [...] who had ascended the tribunals of the praetor; among Romans this office [is] not one without prestige."[1]
Greek Original:*)/akomyon: eu)tele\s, a)pa/nourgon. a)/ndra tw=n tou= prai/twros e)piba/nta bhma/twn: a)rxh\ de/ tis au(/th para\ *(rwmai/ois ou)k a)/komyos.
Notes:
The headword is neuter singular of this adjective, evidently quoted from somewhere (other than the quotation given, where it is masculine/feminine singular). Under the same lemma
Photius,
Lexicon alpha791 Theodoridis, begins with the second of these glosses but then turns to different material and cites a fragment of
Euripides.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 1.4.6 (here abridged); on Elpidius, formerly
praetor Siciliae, envoy to the Avars in 583; cf. de Boor (47), Whitby (25), and ps.-
Zonaras p.110. On Elpidius, see PLRE IIIa s.v. Elpidius(1). On the Avars, see
alpha 18 generally.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
Keywords: biography; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; tragedy
Translated by: Clayton Lehmann on 20 October 2000@14:56:03.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 14 February 2001@09:22:56.
David Whitehead (expanded note; added keyword; cosmetics) on 7 July 2003@08:42:59.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 7 October 2005@09:30:27.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 26 January 2012@08:05:51.
David Whitehead on 19 August 2013@08:21:13.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 12 June 2014@11:50:56.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 13 May 2015@23:26:02.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography and cross-reference) on 5 December 2024@13:43:35.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, after discussion with Ron Allen) on 7 December 2024@00:38:53.
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