A proper name.
*dw/swn: o)/noma ku/rion.
More exactly a nickname, of Antigonos III, regent and king of Macedonia 229-221 BCE.
The word is conventionally regarded as the future participle of the verb
di/dwmi ("I give");
Plutarch,
Life of Aemilius Paulus 8.3, states that this was intended to designate him a man of promises which he failed to keep; so likewise e.g. R.M. Errington in OCD(4) 102 s.v. 'Antigonus(3)'. Since this Antigonos apparently had another epithet, Guardian (Livy 40.54.5;
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 6.251D [6.58 Kaibel]), Hammond & Walbank regard it as possible that
dw/swn is a Macedonian word with that meaning (so already K.J. Beloch); and they dismiss what
Plutarch says as "a poor guess, for Antigonus did hand over the kingdom to [the legitimate heir] Philip on his death."
N.G.L. Hammond & F.W. Walbank, A History of Macedonia, iii (Oxford 1988) 337.
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