ἀπαρχαί
From LSJ
ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος → Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.
English (Woodhouse)
(see also: ἀπαρχή) first fruits
Lexicon Thucydideum
primitiae, first fruits, 3.58.2, [singul. singular ἀπαρχή vulgo commonly 6.20.4, ubi nunc where now ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς, cf. Popp. adn. compare Poppo's note]