ἀνδράποδον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[δρᾰ], τό, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[one taken in war and sold as a slave]], whether originally slave or free, [[captive]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.125</span>,<span class="bibl">129</span>,<span class="bibl">5.31</span>, etc.: orig. dist. from δοῦλος, ὅσοι δὲ ἦσαν ξεῖνοί τε καὶ δοῦλοι . . ἐν ἀνδραπόδων λόγῳ ποιεύμενος εἶχε <span class="bibl">Id.3.125</span>; τὰ ἀ. πάντα, καὶ δοῦλα καὶ ἐλεύθερα <span class="bibl">Th.8.28</span>; τὰ ἀ. τὰ δοῦλα πάντα ἀπέδοτο <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>1.6.15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[low fellow]], 'creature', <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>483b</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Thg.</span>130b</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>4.2.39</span>, <span class="bibl">D.Chr.31.109</span>; of a female slave, <span class="bibl">Pherecr.16</span> D. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> as a playful mode of address, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>1.4.14</span>, al.—Hom., <span class="bibl">Il.7.475</span>, has Ep.dat.pl. [[ἀνδραπόδεσσι]] (as if from [[ἀνδράπους]]), where Aristarch. proposed to read [[ἀνδραπόδοισι]]; but it is almost certain that the word was post-Homeric, and the line was rejected on that account by Zenod. and Ar.Byz. (Orig. pl.; formed on the analogy of [[τετράποδα]], cf. τετραπόδων πάντων καὶ ἀνδραπόδων <span class="title">Foed.Delph.Pell.</span>1.<span class="title">B</span>7. Sg. in <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ath.</span>1.18</span>, etc.)</span>