[Used] with a dative. Meaning [he] confirming, affirming.[1] "The false Philip tried to register for himself [sc. the name] Philip the Macedonian."[2] Meaning [him] supposing.[3]
*)epigra/fwn: dotikh=|. a)nti\ tou= bebaiw=n, dii+sxurizo/menos. o( de\ *yeudofi/lippos e)pe/grafen e(autw=| *fi/lippon to\n *makedo/na: a)nti\ tou= h(ghsa/menon.
cf.
epsilon 2026,
epsilon 2272,
epsilon 2274.
[1] The headword is present participle, masculine nominative singular, of this verb. It must be quoted from somewhere (other than the quotation given here, which has the imperfect
e)pe/grafen); there are numerous possibilities.
[2] For this pretender, a.k.a. Andriscus, of the mid-second century BCE, see
Polybius 36.9.1-2, 36.10.2, 36.17.13;
Diodorus Siculus 32.15 (and 32.9ab). Valckenaer (as Adler notes) attributed the present quotation to
Polybius, but
Diodorus would be equally likely. (See also Appian,
Libyca 643;
Strabo 71.1.48, 13.4.2.) In any event Andriscus, who claimed to be a son of Perseus (
pi 1370,
pi 1371), issued coins with the legend 'of king Philip', i.e. a putative Philip VI. (For Philip V see
phi 355.) He was the last of the Macedonian kings in any sense: after his brief reign, 149-148, the Romans turned Macedonia into a province.
[3] A problematic extra gloss, in the accusative case. Kuster deleted it; Bernhardy thought it belonged to a different entry.
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