[Meaning] under the [sc. open] air. And
u(/paiqron [sc. is used] similarly.[1]
Eunapius [writes]: "both
Maximus[2] and
Priscus[3] had a share of wisdom, but the scarcest experience in government and public affairs."[4] And elsewhere: "as if he had fought some public and lawful battle".[5] That is, a conspicuous [one].
Also [sc. attested is]
u(/paiqros.[6]
*(upai/qrion: u(po\ to\n a)e/ra. kai\ u(/paiqron o(moi/ws. *eu)na/pios: *ma/cimo/s te kai\ *pri/skos lo/gou me\n metexe/thn, th=s de\ tw=n koinw=n kai\ u(pai/qrwn pragma/twn pei/ras e)la/xiston. kai\ au)=qis: w(s a)\n u(/paiqro/n tina kai\ e)/nnomon a)gwnisa/menos ma/xhn. toute/sti profanh=. kai\ *(/upaiqros.
The headword (a single word in the Greek), evidently quoted from somewhere, is the neuter nominative/vocative/accusative singular or masculine/feminine accusative singular of the two-ending adjective
u(pai/qrios, -on; see generally LSJ s.v. The quotations appended contain instances of an alternative spelling of the adjective [n.1], first in the genitive plural and then in the accusative singular.
[1] The headword is identically glossed in the Synagoge (upsilon35),
Photius'
Lexicon (upsilon68 Theodoridis), and
Etymologicum Magnum 777.45; cf. e.g.
Thomas Magister,
Ecloga 367.4, and
Hesychius upsilon223. The alternative spelling also appears at
alphaiota 148 (gloss).
[2] The Neoplatonist philosopher
Maximus of
Ephesus (d.o.b. uncertain; died 370 CE) pursued Aristotelian logic and wrote a commentary, now apparently lost, on
Aristotle's
Categories; cf.
mu 174 and see OCD(4) s.v.
Maximus(3).
[3]
Priscus of Panium in Thrace (born 410-430; died after ?375) was an eastern Roman historian, rhetorician, emissary, and functionary; cf.
pi 2301 and see OCD(4) s.v.
[4]
Eunapius fr. 19 FHG (4.22); Blockley,
Eunapius fr. 25.4 (vol. II, pp. 36-37). The political assessment is inaccurate, at least in regard to
Priscus: the Thracian scholar in fact assumed numerous civic and diplomatic responsibilities (Blockley vol. I, pp. 48-70).
[5] The attribution of this quotation is uncertain. With the preceding one, it appears within
Eunapius fr.19 FHG (4.22) and enjoys a fuller context at
nu 244, where it is approximately repeated. While there is plausible syntactical evidence that it is genuinely Eunapian (Boissonade & Wyttenbach, p. 537), the interpretation hinges on the Suda passages themselves (
upsilon 175 and
nu 244), which are curiously not explicit about the passage's author. So room for skepticism remains, and Blockley (vol. II, pp. 36-7, p. 486) omits this quotation from his selection of Eunapian fragments.
[6] The masculine (and feminine) nominative singular of the headword's alternative spelling. For comparison, Adler cites Lexicon Ambrosianum 100.
Blockley, R.C. The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Vol. II. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983.
J.F. Boissonade and D.F. Wyttenbach, Eunapii Sardiani: Vitae Sophistarum et Fragmenta Historiarum, Amsterdam: P. den Hengst & Son, 1822.
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