[Meaning he/she/it] designated, selected. It is an Attic [expression]:[1] "the king oversaw [the] arrhephoroi." That is, designated [them], selected [them].
Plato in
Laws [sc. uses the word].[2]
*)epiw/yato: kate/lecen, e)cele/cato. e)/sti d' *)attiko/n: o( basileu\s e)piw/yato a)rrhfo/rous. oi(=on kate/lecen, e)cele/cato. *pla/twn e)n *no/mois.
[1] So far, the entry =
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon 987a10 (who also adds '
Plato in Laws'); cf. [Didymos],
De dubiis apud Platonem lectionibus 246.13. Adler also cites
Lexicon Ambrosianum 1647.
[2] In
Plato,
Laws 12.947C, a regulation about a deceased's relatives choosing youths for the funeral procession uses the aorist subjunctive middle, third person plural, of this verb (
e)pio/ywntai) and does not refer either to the arrhephoroi (cf.
alpha 3863) or the Athenian archon known as the 'king',
basileus. Plainly, therefore, the lexica cannot mean that the actual quotation given here comes from the
Laws. Assigning it to the comic poet
Plato (fr. 363 Kock, in the disputed category) creates problems and uncertainties of its own. The simplest and best solution is to classify the quotation as unidentifiable and regard the lexicographers' citation of
Plato's
Laws as applying simply to the use of this uncommon verb.
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