[Meaning] glory/reputation. [Expressed] as a diminutive.
*doca/rion: do/ca. u(pokoristikw=s.
The headword is indeed a (neuter) diminutive of the (feminine) noun
do/ca (for which see web address 1, and cf.
delta 1362,
delta 1364,
delta 1365).
The same entry occurs in other lexica (
Synagoge delta346,
Photius delta712, ps.-
Zonaras 564.1), and the common source may be Herodian,
Partitiones 23.4.
The word
doca/rion always has a negative nuance, either implicit in the context (e.g.
Epictetus,
Dissertationes ab Arriano digestae 1.18.22; Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations 4.3.3) or underlined by accompanying adjectives (e.g. Lucian,
Dialogues of the Dead 26.2:
du/sthnon; Gregory of Nyssa,
In Inscriptiones Psalmorum V p.43 l.6:
du/sthnon; Gregory of Nazianzus,
Letters 178.10:
eu)tele/s; idem,
Speech 19 [
ad Julianum tributorum exaequatorem] 35.1048.26 Migne:
mikro/n; Basil of
Caesarea,
Letters 45.1:
mikro/n).
David Whitehead (modified headword, translation, note; added a keyword) on 18 March 2005@08:46:43.
William Hutton (updated references in note 1) on 25 November 2007@10:24:30.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 26 November 2007@03:05:32.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 16 July 2012@07:47:08.
David Whitehead (coding and other cosmetics) on 13 November 2015@04:46:17.
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