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Headword:
Dracharneu
Adler number: delta,1515
Translated headword: o oak-Acharnian
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "O oaken Acharnian, o unfeeling."[1] For the Acharnians used to be ridiculed in comedy as being wild and harsh.[2] In the case of the Potamians, it was for readily accepting the improperly-inscribed [sc. into membership]; and Thymaitadai and Prospaltians because they were litigious.[3]
Greek Original:Dracharneu: druine Acharneu, anaisthête. ekômôidounto gar hoi Acharneis hôs agrioi kai sklêroi. potamioi de, hôs rhaidiôs dechomenoi tous parengraphous. thumoitadai kai prospaltioi, hôs dikastikoi.
Notes:
Likewise in
Photius,
Lexicon delta762 (where Theodoridis emends the headword to
*Druaxarneu=).
[1] A fragment of Attic comedy (
Adespota fr. 75 Kock, now 498 K.-A.).
[2] Quoted at
alpha 359, end; also at
sigma 639.
[3] Oddly, the major deme
Acharnai (D. Whitehead,
The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v.) does not have its own Suda entry, but for Potamos see
pi 2122 and
pi 2124; for Thymaitadai see
theta 554; and for Prospalta see
pi 2780.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 September 2000@05:23:55.
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