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Headword:
Ἀγελαῖος
Adler number: alpha,187
Translated headword: ordinary
Vetting Status: high
Translation: No-account fellow [ἰδιώτης ]. Or the lead animal in the herd.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the genitive plural] "of ἀγελαῖοι ", of no-account fellows, of rustics.
"Such-and-such is likely enough of [= in] ordinary men". Meaning common ones.[2]
Also [sc. attested is] "of ἀγελαῖοι ", of the random masses. It would be used metaphorically from animals in herds or from fish,[3] which they say feed lavishly and in schools [ἀγεληδόν ].[4]
Greek Original:Ἀγελαῖος: ἰδιώτης. ἢ ὁ ἐν ἀγέλῃ διάγων. καὶ Ἀγελαίων, ἰδιωτῶν, ῥεμβωδῶν. τῶν ἀγελαίων ἔοικεν ἀνθρώπων εἶναι ὁ τοιοῦτος. ἀντὶ τοῦ εὐτελῶν. καὶ Ἀγελαίων, τῶν πολλῶν καὶ τυχόντων. εἴη δ' ἂν ἐκ μεταφορᾶς τῶν ἀγελαίων ζῴων ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰχθύων, οὓς βόσκεσθαι ῥύδην καὶ ἀγεληδόν φασιν.
Notes:
The closest comparanda for this entry in its entirety are found in the
Lexicon Platonicum ascribed to
Timaeus 971b.10;
Synagoge (Codex B) alpha99;
Photius alpha134 (cf. alpha141), though none of these matches up precisely. Snippets evidently from the same source appear elsewhere, as noted below.
[1] For the distinction see already
alpha 186. Thus far the entry =
Synagoge alpha49; cf. Ael.
Dion. alpha17; Eudemos 3.20;
Hesychius alpha424, omicron3.
[2] Julian,
Oration 7 (205D), where "such-and-such" = the invention of myth. The glosses (minus the quotation) in this and the previous sentence are paralleled in
Etymologicum Gudianum 4.3 and
Etymologicum Magnum 7.41.
[3] cf.
alpha 189.
[4] The reference is probably to
Herodotus 2.93.1, where both
ἰχθύες ἀγελαῖοι and the adverb
ἀγεληδόν (
alpha 191) appear (see web address 1). This etymological information also appears in Harpokration alpha8 Keaney (4.13 Dindorf) as well as in some of the sources cited above.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; imagery; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 23 June 1999@13:23:22.
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