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Headword: Κυρία
Adler number: kappa,2759
Translated headword: sovereignty
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
The force existing by nature.[1] Also [sc. attested is] 'sovereign', the defined and statutory day.[2]
"Crowded together in the sovereign [sc. assembly] itself, having fallen upon the leaders, they killed them all."[3]
Also [sc. attested is] κυριώτατον ["most/very important"]: the ultimate.[4] Polybius [writes]: "it was most/very important to flee the war away from Macedonia."[5]
Greek Original:
Κυρία: ἡ κατὰ φύσιν ὑπάρχουσα δύναμις. καὶ κυρία, ἡ ὡρισμένη καὶ ἐμπρόθεσμος ἡμέρα. ἀθρόον τε ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ κυρίᾳ ἐπιπεσόντες τοῖς ἡγεμόσι πάντας ἀπέκτειναν. καὶ Κυριώτατον, τὸ τελεώτατον. ὁ Πολύβιος: κυριώτατον ἦν τὸν πόλεμον φυγεῖν ἀπὸ τῆς Μακεδονίας.
Notes:
[1] This primary gloss -- before the rest of the entry turns to matters of law, history and historiography -- indicates that the (feminine) headword comes from a philosophical context; see generally LSJ s.v. κύριος , II.1.
[2] Perhaps a gloss on Demosthenes 21.84 (and 21.93), 'the statutory [day]' when a lawsuit in classical Athens had to come to court. And perhaps more broadly related to the Athenian 'sovereign' assembly-meeting, one per prytany (thus ten per year) in Aristotle's time; see [Aristotle], Ath. Pol. 43.4-6 (web address 1), and further under epsilon 470. This part of the entry appears as well in Photius and Anecdota Graeca (Bachmann) 285.27; cf. Hesychius s.v. κυρίας , Anecdota Graeca (Bekker) 274.6.
[3] Quotation (and incident -- not likely to be Athenian) unidentifiable.
[4] cf. epsilon 2766 (end).
[5] A variation upon Polybius fr.45 Büttner-Wobst; cf. epsilon 3102.
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Keywords: constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; law; military affairs; philosophy; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 28 December 2007@02:43:14.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 29 December 2007@00:33:01.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 December 2007@04:51:44.
Catharine Roth (typo, note number) on 30 December 2007@22:25:10.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 31 December 2007@06:19:21.

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