[Meaning] the [areas] next to the boundaries of territories, adjacent to either a mountain or a sea, they used to call 'frontiers'.[1]
Also (?)cheapness is called a 'frontier'.[2]
And elsewhere: "Diocletian, holding a discussion about the issues, thought it was necessary also to fortify each frontier with sufficient forces and to establish outposts."[3]
*)esxatia/: ta\ pro\s toi=s te/rmasi tw=n xwri/wn e)sxatia\s e)/legon, oi(=s geitnia=| ei)/te o)/ros ei)/te qa/lassa. kai\ h( eu)te/leia le/getai e)sxatia/. kai\ au)=qis: o( *dioklhtiano\s lo/gon poiou/menos tw=n pragma/twn w)|h/qh dei=n kai\ duna/mesin a)rkou/sais e(ka/sthn e)sxatia\n o)xurw=sai kai\ frou/ria poih=sai.
cf.
epsilon 3253.
[1] = Harpokration 138.5 (E146 Keaney), citing
Demosthenes for this usage in the speech
In Reply to Phainippos. Forms of the headword are used several times there, e.g. Demosth. 42.5 (web address 1). Also =
Photius,
Lexicon epsilon2048; and cf.
Hesychius epsilon6453 and 6454,
Etymologicum Magnum 384.27-8.
[2] Not in the preserved literature, and not registered by LSJ. Adler reports no manuscript variants for
h( eu)te/leia, but she does note Kuster's emendation to
ta\ teleutai=a ('the uttermost (parts)'), proposed on the basis of
Etymologicum Magnum 384.30-32 ("Attic writers call (frontiers) the uttermost parts of the fields -- as
Homer says [a version of
Odyssey 4.517 is quoted; see also 5.489, 18.358, 24.150]").
[3] Ascribed to
Eunapius by Friedrich Reitemeier in his edition (1784) of
Zosimus, and accepted as such by Dindorf (1.213.10-13) and Müller (fr.5 FHG = 4.14). For Diocletian see generally
delta 1156.
David Whitehead (x-refs; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 January 2008@03:51:45.
William Hutton (augmented note 1) on 30 January 2008@05:23:48.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 2 November 2012@06:43:35.
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