[Meaning] one who is harsh and past his prime, one who is able to bear harsh things.[1]
Because the Acharnians were being lampooned as wild and harsh. Also look under 'Dracharnian.'[2]
*sklhfro/s: o( sklhro\s kai\ parhbhkw/s, o( ta\ sklhra\ fe/rein duna/menos. o(/ti e)kwmw|dou=nto oi( *)axarnei=s w(s a)/grioi kai\ sklhroi/. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| draxarneu=.
[1] =
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon 1002a24, and
Photius sigma349 Theodoridis. They are commenting on
Plato,
Euthydemus 271B, where the headword adjective occurs; cf. also
Pollux 2.10. There was considerable disagreement on the meaning of this term among ancient commentators: contrast
scholia to
Plato loc. cit.,
scholia to
Aeschines 1.49, and ps.-
Theaetetus,
Lexicon of Attic Words ("old in age but young in appearance"),
Hesychius sigma1041 ("thin and slender" - hence LSJ),
Photius sigma348 s.v.
sklhfro/n ("withered and unseemly"). The present gloss seems to be etymologically oriented, basing its definition on the similarity between the headword and the adjective
sklhro/s ('harsh') along with the verb
fe/rw ('bear').
[2] This sentence, lacking (Adler reports) in mss AFV, has been deposited here from
delta 1515 (the entry cited); the only connection with the present entry would seem to be that both contain forms of the adjective
sklhro/s ('harsh').
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