ἄχθος ἀρούρης

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ákʰ.tʰos a.rǔː.rɛːs/ → /ˈax.θos aˈru.ris/ → /ˈax.θos aˈru.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ákʰ.tʰos a.rǔː.rɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈakʰ.tʰos aˈru.re̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈax.θos aˈru.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈax.θos aˈru.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈax.θos aˈru.ris/

Phrase

ἄχθος ἀρούρης • (ákhthos aroúrēs)

1. (figuratively, of useless people) a dead weight on earth, cumberers of the ground
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.104
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.379

Further reading

• “ἄχθος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἄχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press