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Headword:
*kaqelw/n
Adler number: kappa,48
Translated headword: having overpowered
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demosthenes [writes "or having overpowered on a road"] meaning having done away with [someone] and killed [him].[1]
Stesichorus and
Sophocles also used the word in this way.[2]
Greek Original:*kaqelw/n: *dhmosqe/nhs a)nti\ tou= a)nelw\n h)/toi a)poktei/nas. kai\ *sthsi/xoros de\ kai\ *sofoklh=s ou(/tws e)xrh/santo tw=| o)no/mati.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v.
The headword is aorist active participle of
kaqaire/w, masculine nominative singular.
[1]
Demosthenes 23.53, on one of the situations where Athenian law recognised justifiable homicide.
[2]
Stesichorus fr. 19 Lobel-Page;
Sophocles fr.205 Radt.
D.M. MacDowell, Athenian Homicide Law (Manchester 1963) 73-77
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; law; poetry; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 November 2000@10:24:28.
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