apage Latin · revision 33574

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc ἀπάγω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈa.pa.ɡɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈaː.pa.d͡ʒe]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''apage''' (imperative only; often followed by ''sīs'')^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἄπαγε|tr=ápage|t=lead away!, go away!]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) the imperative of [[m|grc|ἀπάγω|tr=apágō|t=to lead away]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) That verb is a compound of [[m|grc|ἀπό|tr=apó|t=away]] and [[m|grc|ἄγω|tr=ágō|t=to lead]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found in Plautus,^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it without an object to mean “be off!”: ''apage, non placet me hoc noctis esse'', “away! I don't like being out at this time of night”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short note that it belongs to comedy and the epistolary style and that Cicero never uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used on its own or with an accusative of the person or thing to be sent away, as Plautus' ''apage istas a me sorores'' and Terence's ''apage te'', and often with ''sīs'', “if you please”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From a dismissal it became a rejection of an idea, “nonsense!, out of the question!”, as when a character in Plautus answers a proposal to flee home with ''apage'': it would not become them to imitate runaways.^(OLD 2012) It also appears in a letter of Vatinius to Cicero^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in Apuleius.^(OLD 2012) Ancient glossaries explain it as “go away”, and a note on Apuleius calls it a Greek word for “dismiss, depart or stop”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, “be off!” and “nonsense!”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence has ''apage te'' and ''apage sīs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 2nd half of the 2nd century BC – Afranius has ''apage sīs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius still uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(imperative, often as an interjection)'' Away!, be off!, [[m|en|begone]]!; with an accusative, away with …!^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(rejecting a proposal)'' Nonsense!, out of the question!^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[agō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ It is a Greek imperative used in Latin like an [[m|en|interjection]], constructed, as Lewis & Short note, like ''ō'', ''ah'' and ''ēn''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}