and treasure-chests:[1] household furniture.
Also [sc. attested is the verb]
a)popurgi/zw.[2]
Diagoras wrote the
Apopyrgizontes Logoi,[3] containing his withdrawal and falling-away of the belief concerning the divine; for he had previously been an atheist.[4]
*purgi/skoi kai\ *qhsaurofula/kia: skeu/h kat' oi)=kon. kai\ *)apopurgi/zw. *diago/ras e)/graye tou\s *)apopurgi/zontas lo/gous, a)naxw/rhsin au)tou= kai\ e)/kptwsin e)/xontas th=s peri\ to\ qei=on do/chs: a)/qeos ga\r h)=n to\ pro/teron.
For the primary headword, here in the nominative plural, see LSJ s.v.
purgi/skos, 2.
[1] Adler classifies this phrase as part of the headword. Both terms are linked by
Artemidorus 1.74 as symbols of similar meaning that one might see in dreams; cf. under
theta 362.
[2] Only (as a participle) in what follows: see next note.
[3] This cryptic title might be interpreted in a number of ways: Discourses that.. (a) remove towers (sc. the defences of the speaker's enemies), (b) reflect the towered-off (sc. secluded, ostracized) status of the speaker, (c) fight from the towers (sc. warding off attacks from the speaker's enemies), etc.
[4] cf.
delta 523, which presents a longer excerpt from the same source (ascribed to
Hesychius of Miletus 191), and clarifies the context somewhat. See also
alpha 3493.
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