Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] nôthros ["torpid/sluggish/slothful/indolent"], [meaning] he who is weak/feeble.[1]
"Being by his nature more torpid/sluggish/slothful/indolent than his royal dignity [sc. required]."[2]
*nwqrei/a. kai\ *nwqro/s, o( a)sqenh/s. nwqro/teros u(pa/rxwn tou= th=s basilei/as prosxh/matos th=| fu/sei.
The unglossed primary headword is a feminine noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see LSJ s.v.; ps.-Herodian,
Partitiones 93.g; and cf. generally
nu 533,
nu 534,
nu 535, and
nu 537. Adler also cites the unpublished
Ambrosian Lexicon (419).
[1] For this secondary lemma see LSJ s.v.
nwqro/s, -a/, -o/n. Its gloss is a two-ending adjective in the masculine (and feminine) nominative singular; LSJ s.v.
a)sqenh/s, -e/s. Identical glossing in
Photius'
Lexicon (nu308 Theodoridis) and the
Synagoge; cf.
Hesychius s.v.
gloio/s. Adler also cites Boysen's
Lexicon Seguerianum.
[2] As Adler notes, this quotation was attributed to
Polybius by 'Wesseling' [= the Westphalian scholar Peter Wesseling (1692-1764)]. Indeed,
Polybius 30.18.2 (web address 1) attaches a similar description to the servile behavior of Pr(o)usias II (king [182-149] of
Bithynia, in northwest Asia Minor, present-day Turkey; Barrington Atlas map 52 grids E4-G3) when he appeared (167-6) before the Roman senate; cf.
pi 2913 and
pi 2914; OCD(4) s.v. Prusias(2); and Walbank, p. 441. A positive identification of the fragment, however, remains elusive.
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979
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