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Theophrastus · Fragments §105.1

The Legal Meaning of One Harmed by Drugs

Passage 110 of 196 · Greek

Summary

Citing the fifteenth book of On Laws, this fragment explains that the word "one suffering from drugs" refers to one who has been harmed by drugs.

§105.1Fr. 105 Φαρμακῶν δʼ ἐστὶν ὁ ὑπὸ φαρμάκων βεβλαμμένος, ὡς καὶ Θ. ἐν πέμπτῳ καὶ δεκάτῳ νόμων ὑποσημαίνει.
\nFr. 105\nAnd "one suffering from drugs" is the one who has been harmed by drugs, as also Theophrastus intimates in the fifteenth book of Laws.

Notes

  1. §105.1Φαρμακῶν — This is the contracted present active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb φαρμακάω ("to suffer from the effects of drugs/poison"), here used substantively. The perispomenon accent distinguishes it from φαρμάκων, which is the genitive plural of the noun φάρμακον ("drug, poison"), which has a proparoxytone accent.

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Theophrastus, Fragments §105.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg010x09.humanitext-grc1:105.1

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