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Headword:
*(upokorizo/menoi
Adler number: upsilon,517
Translated headword: nicknaming
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they who are] ridiculing.
Xenophon [writes]: "those who hate me call me Badness, nicknaming [me].".[1] But
Demosthenes used the word in reference to [people] palliating and calling something bad with a good name. For he says in the [speech] on the False Embassy: "they impose on themselves a servitude of their own choosing, nicknaming it Philip's guest-friendship and comradeship and and suchlike."[2]
"[... him] looking away into the crowd, to learn where the 'slaves' seemed to him to come from -- for thus was he nicknaming the ex-soldiers."[3]
*(upokorizo/menoi: diasu/rontes. *cenofw=n fhsin: oi( de\ misou=nte/s me u(pokorizo/menoi o)noma/zousi kaki/an. o( de\ *dhmosqe/nhs e)xrh/sato th=| le/cei e)pi\ tou= eu)fhmou=ntes kai\ to\ ai)sxro\n eu)fh/mws o)noma/zontes. le/gei ga\r e)n tw=| *parapresbei/as: au)qai/reton au)toi=s e)pa/gontai doulei/an, *fili/ppou ceni/an kai\ e(tairei/an kai\ ta\ toiau=ta u(pokorizo/menoi. punqa/nesqai ei)s to\ plh=qos a)poble/ponta, podapoi\ dokoi=en au)tw=| ei)=nai oi( pai=des, ou(/tw ga\r u(pokorizo/menos e)ka/lei tou\s strateusame/nous.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is present participle, masculine nominative plural, of
u(pokori/zomai.
cf. generally
upsilon 510,
upsilon 516,
upsilon 518.
[1] Kakia speaking to Heracles in
Xenophon,
Memorabilia 2.1.26 (web address 1).
[2]
Demosthenes 19.259 (web address 2). Entry thus far =
Photius upsilon214 Theodoridis (q.v. for other references).
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; military affairs; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 20 April 2008@15:09:39.
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