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[Meaning] one that is hurt, not healthy, but injured and wasted.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] a)na/phros ["cripple"], [meaning] one who is lame.
One who is excessively maimed in a limb of his body. Lysias in the [speech] On the obol given to invalids [writes]: "and what prevents [...] you helping yourselves to [my] obol, on the basis that I am healthy, and voting to give it to this man on the basis that he is a cripple?"[2]
"The captive was brought along into the midst [sc. of the dining area], nose and ears mutilated, and having become the victim of jests."[3]

*)ana/phron yuxh/n: th\n e)piblabh=, mh\ u(giai/nousan, a)lla\ sesinwme/nhn kai\ a)xrei/an. kai\ *)ana/phros, o( xwlo/s. o( kaq' u(perbolh\n pephrwme/nos me/lei tini\ tou= sw/matos. *lusi/as e)n tw=| peri\ tou= didome/nou toi=s a)duna/tois o)bolou=: kai\ ti/ kwlu/ei u(ma=s me\n w)felei=sqai tw=| o)bolw=|, w(s u(giei=s o)/ntas, tou/tw| de\ yhfi/sasqai e)a/santas w(s a)naph/rw|; o( de\ de/smios e)s me/son paragi/netai r(i=na kai\ w)=ta a)na/phros, paigni/wn te gegonw\s parana/lwma.

cf. generally alpha 2014.
[1] Likewise in Photius; from ancient comment on Plato, Republic 535D, where the headword phrase appears (web address 1).
[2] Lysias 24.13 (web address 2), abridged.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 5.5.8, on Chosroes II celebrating the capture of Bryzakios and the victory over his forces by having the Persian officer killed at a banquet (spring/summer of 591); cf. de Boor (197-198) and Whitby (139). On Chosroes, Persian king 590-628, see PLRE IIIa s.v. Chosroes II Parwez. On Bryzakios, one of the Persian rebel Bahram Chobin's generals, see PLRE IIIa s.v. Bryzacius. On Bahram (Baram), see kappa 1128 note and kappa 2025 note. Here the Suda transmits paragi/netai (third person singular, present indicative middle-passive form of paragi/gnomai, I come to, I am beside) whereas Theophylact's text reads para/getai (third person singular, present indicative middle-passive form of para/gw, I bring forward).

Robert Garland, In The Eye of the Beholder: deformity and disability in the Graeco-Roman world, (London 1995)
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)

David Whitehead (modified translation; added note, bibliography, keyword) on 13 October 2000@03:42:29.
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