pidri-

This lexeme is attested in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).

[D.S.]

3sg. pres. ind. med.

pidritẽni

TL 44c.56-57 (Xanthos)

Pace Carruba 1968a:21, there is no 2pl. pres. ending in -tẽni. Rather, these are medio-passive endings, see Melchert 1992c. The Lyc. B word pidritẽni has been tentatively interpreted as a noun in the dative singular (thus DLL:124, Schürr 2016d:167). Likewise, Shevoroshkin 1969a:268 (and Shevoroshkin 2014a:235) saw an agent noun in -ẽne/i-. This is, however, unlikely since taking pidritẽni as the predicate provides us with a better syntactic analysis of the passage, for which see Sasseville 2021d.

[D.S.]

Taken as the predicate of the sentence, pidritẽni would denote an action that the Lycian king performs on vines and grapes (see Sasseville 2021d). Shevoroshkin 2014a:235 suggests the meaning ‘to provide’, suggesting an etymological connection with Lyc. B padre-. Although the etymological connection is highly attractive, the meaning of the latter is not assured. Schürr 2016d:167 equates pidritẽni with the divine name Padrita- ‘Aphrodite’ and the derivative padritahi ‘Aphrodision’ (followed by Gehrisch 2018a:82), which is contextually less convincing. No meaning is offered by Melchert (DLL:124), and none is given here either.

[D.S.]

The word pidritẽni is interpreted here as a medio-passive verb in -i-. Sasseville 2021a:375 n. 54 posits that it is the medio-passive counterpart of padrete, which would require a spelling mistake and an emendation to pa^!dritẽni; see Lyc. B padre-.

[D.S.]