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Headword:
*lh=cis
Adler number: lambda,465
Translated headword: allotment, cessation
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] ceasing, or portion, inheritance.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "and he buries the dead man, having already rendered to the infernal gods their
allotment."[2] And elsewhere: "on the
cessation of that period (a cessation which, by Zeus, was hardly fortunate), he hurled himself like a lightning bolt onto the evils of the Egyptians, in Alexander's City and Rome."[3]
[Note] that a ceasing is an inheritance, but an allocation [is] a portion;[4] and "selection by lot" is an allotment to a better portion. "He did not hesitate to allot with deifying authority."[5]
*lh=cis: pau=sis, h)\ meri/s, klhronomi/a. *ai)liano/s: kai\ qa/ptei to\n nekro/n, toi=s kataxqoni/ois qeoi=s a)podidou\s th=s e)kei/nwn lh/cews h)/dh. kai\ au)=qis: lh/cei ou) ma\ *di/a eu)klh/rw| xro/nou ta\ *ai)gupti/wn kaka\ tw=n e)n th=| po/lei th=| *)aleca/ndrou e)gkate/skhye kai\ th=| *(rw/mh|. o(/ti pau=si/s e)sti klhronomi/a, lh=cis de\ meri/s: h( de\ a)poklh/rwsis me/ros ei)s a)mei/nona lh=cin. a)poklhrw=sai qeopoiw=| fronti/di ou)de\n w)/knhse.
Notes:
[1] LSJ s.v.
lh=cis A "allotment", from
lagxa/nw; LSJ s.v.
lh=cis B "cessation", from
lh/gw. Same definition given in
alpha 3356 (and cf.
mu 875); also in the
Synagoge,
Photius, and the
Lexica Segueriana. The 1822 Porson edition of
Photius (but not the 1998 Theodoridis) has "a portion" (
h( meri/s) instead of "or portion" (
h)\ meri/s).
[2]
Aelian fr. 240 Domingo-Forasté, 241 Hercher (
xqoni/ois in manuscripts GFVM).
[3]
Aelian fr. 286 Domingo-Forasté (288 Hercher); cf.
epsilon 80.
[4] Possibly a misunderstanding of the initial phrase of the definition, rearranging the terms to make sense of the ambiguity.
[5]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 256 Zintzen. Zintzen includes "to the better portion" in the fragment. Also cited (with the garbled redefinition of
lh=cis) in
pi 821 and
alpha 3356.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 6 April 2009@21:07:59.
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