δραπέτης
νὺξ μὲν ἐμὸν κατέχει ζωῆς φάος ὑπνοδοτείρη → sleep-giving night hath quenched my light of life | sleep-giving night covers my light of life | night, the giver of sleep, holds the light of my life
English (LSJ)
ου, Ion. δρηπέτης, εω, ὁ, (διδράσκω, δρᾶναι)
A runaway, βασιλέος from the king, Hdt.3.137; esp. runaway slave, δούλοισι, καὶ τοῦτο δρηπέτῃσι Id.6.11, cf. Ar.Ach.1187, Herod. 3.13, etc.; δ. ἀνήρ S.Fr.63. 2 Adj., ποὺς δ. E.Or.1498 (lyr.), cf. Aeschin.3.152; βίος δ. fugitive life, AP10.87 (Pall.); οὐ δραπέτην τὸν κλῆρον . . μεθείς no skulker's lot, i. e. not a lump of earth which would fall in pieces, of the lot of Cresphontes, S.Aj.1285. II fem. δρᾱπέτις, ιδος, Luc.Asin.25: as Adj., στέγη a home whose occupants are shifting, S.Fr.174; ψυχή AP12.80 (Mel.); μέλισσαι Ael.Ep.5; Δραπέτιδες, title of play by Cratinus.
German (Pape)
[Seite 665] ὁ (διδράσκω), ein entlaufener Sklav, übh. Ausreißer; Pind. frg. 99; Ar. Ach. 1187; Eur. Rhes. 69. Auch adj., πούς Eur. Or. 1498, wie Aesch. 3, 152; ἄνθρωπος Plat. Men. 97 e; κλῆρος Soph. Ai. 1285; βίος, das schnell entschwindende Leben, Pallad. 117 (X, 87).
