ἄχθος ἀρούρης

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Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

(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)

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

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