Pseudo-Aelius Herodian, Parsings 63
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Context
Although we do not know the authorship or date of the grammatical
treatise Parsings (Ἐπιμερισμοί), its language points to the late phase of
scholarship at Constantinople during the 12th to 14th centuries. The manuscripts falsely
attributed it to the great Greek grammarian of the High Roman Empire, Aelius Herodian,
whose model it emulated in its encyclopedic format and technical scope. The work
examined sound-clusters in the spelling of Byzantine Greek words. In this passage, the
author cited the place name Kaisareia among other words containing
the element kai.
Text
Πλὴν τοῦ καὶ, συνδεσμοῦ· καινὸν, τὸ νέον καὶ παράδοξον, ὅθεν καινοτομία,
ἡ νέα πράξις ἢ ἡ παράδοξος· καινοτομῶ, τὸ νεοπραγῶ· Καίσαρ, Καίσαρος· Καισάρεια πόλις,
καὶ Καισαρεὺς ὁ ἀπὸ Καισαρείας· καιρὸς ὁ χρόνος, ὅθεν καὶ
καίριον, τὸ ἔγκαιριον· καιροφυλακῶ· καιροσκοπῶ· καιρία πληγὴ, ὁ θανάσιμος· καικίας,
ἄνεμος· Καινεὺς, κύριον, καὶ κλίνεται Καινέως· καίω, ῥῆμα, τὸ φλογίζω· καὶ καίνω, τὸ
κόπτω, ὅθεν καὶ καινὶς, ἡ μάχαιρα.
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Textual Note
Ed. Boissonade 1819Translation
Besides
kai, conjunction: kainon, the new and
incredible, from which we also get kainotomia, a new practice or
paradox; kainotomo, verb “to render new”; Kaisar,
Kaisaros;
Kaisareia
the city, and
Kaisareus, the man from
Kaisareia
; kairos, the
time, from which we also get kairion, engkairion;
kairophylako; kairoskopo; kairia
plege, the death-blow; kaikias, wind;
Kaineus, proper noun, declined Kaineos;
kaio, verb, “to set afire”; and kaino, verb “to
cut”, from which we also get kainis, knife.
Translation Note
Trans. J. L. RifeWorks Cited
- 1 Pseudo-Aelius Herodianus, Ἠρωδιανοῦ Ἐπιμερισμοί. Herodiani Partitiones, ed. Jean François Boissonade, repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1963 (London: Black & Sons, 1819), p: 63.
Additional Bibliography
- Eleanor Dickey, A Catalogue of Works Attributed to the Grammarian Herodian, Classical Philology 109, no. 4 (2014): 325–45, p: 325-345.
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William L. Potter et al., “Pseudo-Aelius Herodian, Parsings 63,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/45.
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