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Headword:
*)enau/ein
Adler number: epsilon,1136
Translated headword: to kindle, to light a fire
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to share fire.
Polybius [writes]: "if any one remained who had not died [sc. in the battle] and escaped the danger, [the Acarnanians decreed] that no city was to receive him or light a fire [for him]. On these decisions they made solemn execrations, especially for the Epirotes, that none of those who fled should be given asylum in the region".[1]
And elsewhere
Aelian [writes]:[2] "if ever a disease had spread in the community, the sacred scribes, coming to the burial precinct of this man[3] and then performing the due rituals, lit a fire from the altar and kindled some pyres, one for each city; [thus] they drove away from the bad-smelling air the deadly disease, and after having rarefied it they quenched with the flame the newest source of pollution". And elsewhere:[4] "through blackmail the Athenian Kallixenos[5] got back prizes[6] for his impudence and impiety, hated in town and poverty-stricken and incarcerated to die of starvation; for they did not share any water with him, nor were they willing to light a fire, as if to have common dealings with those wishing and needing [to do so]."
*)enau/ein: puro\s metadido/nai. *polu/bios: ei) de/ tis leipo/menos mh\ qa/noi, fu/goi de\ to\n ki/ndunon, tou=ton mh/te po/lei de/xesqai mh/te pu=r e)nau/ein. peri\ tou/twn a)ra\s e)poih/santo pa=si me/n, ma/lista de\ toi=s *)hpeirw/tais, ei)s to\ mhde/na tw=n fugo/ntwn de/casqai th=| xw/ra|. kai\ au)=qis *ai)liano/s: ei)/ pote dhmosi/a no/sos e)pepo/lasen, e)pi\ to\n shko\n tou=de foitw=ntes oi( i(erogrammatei=s, ei)=ta me/ntoi ta\s deou/sas i(erourgi/as e)pitelou=ntes e)k tou= bwmou= pu=r e)nau/ontai kai\ e)ch=pton pura\s kata\ po/leis kai\ tou= dusw/dous a)e/ros th\n fqoropoio\n e)kei/nhn no/son marai/nousi kai\ leptu/nantes tou=to dh\ to\ kaino/taton th\n no/son e)/sbesan tw=| puri/. kai\ au)=qis: *kalli/cenos o( *)aqhnai=os dia\ sukofanti/an a)=qla a)phne/gkato th=s a)naisxunti/as kai\ a)sebei/as, e)n a)/stei misou/menos kai\ peno/menos kai\ a)pokleio/menos limw=| a)poqanei=n: e)pei\ mh/te u(/datos e)koinw/noun au)tw=|, mh/te puro\s e)nau/ein e)bou/lonto, w(/sper ou)=n koinwnei=n toi=s boulome/nois kai\ deome/nois.
Notes:
The headword is present infinitive of the verb
e)nau/w; again
epsilon 1137, and cf.
Hesychius epsilon2705, epsilon2708, epsilon2709.
[1]
Polybius 9.40.5 (web address 1 below). The passage, though incomplete in the manuscript transmission, tells about the measures taken by the Acarnanians when faced by an invasion of the Aetolians led by Scopas in 211 BCE. After having sent to Epirus their women, children and elderly people, the Acarnanians solemnly swore to fight the invaders with all their might, and bound themselves not to admit back any soldiers fleeing from the battle. See also Livy 26.25 (web address 2).
[2]
Aelian fr. 108b Domingo-Forasté (105 Hercher); cf.
iota 73. On fighting plague with fire, see
alpha 1026.
[3] The Egyptian Jachim.
[4]
Aelian fr. 243 Domingo-Forasté (245 Hercher).
[5] The mover of the decree against the generals who had been in command at the Battle of Arginusae (406 BCE), Kallixenos was later prosecuted; having escaped confinement, he went to
Dekeleia as a refugee to the Lacedaemonians. Three years later he came back to
Athens, under the general amnesty: but the hatred of the citizens had him live in poverty. See
kappa 1040;
Xenophon,
Hellenica 1.7.35;
Diodorus Siculus 13.103 (
Excerpta Constantiniana,
de virtutibus et vitiis 234.5);
scholia to Aelius
Aristides 163.7.
[6] Ironic.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 14 October 2005@20:37:22.
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