Meaning of: θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ

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Meaning of: θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ

Postby Louis L Sorenson » January 25th, 2012, 10:12 pm

I've been reading Harold Hoener's book Herod Antipas: A Contemporary of Jesus Christ. http://www.amazon.com/Herod-Antipas-Contemporary-Jesus-Christ/dp/0310422515/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327541864&sr=1-1-fkmr0. I don't have the book currently in hand, but he talked about the time when Herod Antipas was in Rome and trying to resolve a crisis and retain his kingdom in response to Archelaus' recall and exile. Harold Hoener translates θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ as 'with much money'.

LSJ's entry for θεραπεία is as follows:

θερα^π-εία , Ion. θερα^π-ηΐη (θερα^π-είη Hp.Art.80,al.), ἡ,
A. service, attendance:
I. of persons, θ. τῶν θεῶν service paid to the gods, Pl. Euthphr.13d, cf. E.El.744 (lyr.); “θεῶν καὶ ἡρώων θεραπεῖαι” Pl.R.427b, etc.; “ἡ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς θ.” Isoc.11.24; ἀγυιάτιδες θ. worship of Apollo Agyieus, E.Ion187; “τὴν θ. ἀποδιδόναι τοῖς θεοῖς” Arist.Pol.1329a32; “θ. τῆς μήνιδος” Jul.Or.5.159b: abs., “πᾶσαν θ. ὡς ἰσόθεος θεραπευόμενος” Pl.Phdr.255a, cf. Antipho 4.2.4; of parents, “γονέων θεραπείας καὶ τιμάς” Pl.Lg.886c, cf. Gorg.Fr.6 D.; of children, nurture, care, “μικροὺς παῖδας θεραπείας δεομένους” Lys.13.45; “θ. καὶ ἐσθής” X.Mem.3.11.4; θ. σώματος, ψυχῆς, Pl.Grg.464b, La.185e.
2. service done to gain favour, paying court, “θ. τοῦ κοινοῦ καὶ τῶν αἰεὶ προεστώτων” Th.3.11; “ἐν θεραπείᾳ ἔχειν πολλῇ” Id.1.55; “πάσῃ θεραπείᾳ θεραπεύειν τινά” X.HG 2.3.14; “θεραπείαις προσαγαγέσθαι” Isoc.3.22; “τῇ θ. ψυχαγωγούμενος” D.59.55.
II. medical or surgical treatment or cure, χειρός, ποδός, Hp.l.c.; αἱ ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν θ. αἱ διὰ καύσεων γιγνόμεναι cures by cautery, Pl.Prt.354a; ἡ ἐκ τῶν γραμμάτων θ. treatment secundum artem, Arist.Pol.1287a40, cf. Gal.1.400, etc.; “τῶν καμνόντων” Pl.Prt. 345a, cf. Th.2.51, Phld.Ir.p.21 W.; “τοῦ σώματος” Id.Lib.p.19 O., Vit.Philonid.p.9 C.; healing, “θεραπείας ἐπιτυχών” Sammelb.1537b: in pl., cures, “ἰατρὸς ποιεῖ -είας” POxy.1r.13.
III. of animals, care, tendance, Pl.Euthphr.13a, Arist.HA578a7 (pl.).
2. of plants, cultivation, Pl.Tht.149e, Thphr.HP2.2.12.
3. maintenance or repairs of temples, SIG1106.49 (Cos, iv/iii B.C.), 1102.8 (ii B.C.).
4. preparation of fat for medical use, Dsc.2.76.
IV. in collective sense, body of attendants, retinue, Hdt.1.199, 5.21, 7.184, LXXGe. 45.16; “σὺν ἱππικῇ θ.” X.Cyr.4.6.1; “ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς θ. τεταγμένος” Plb.4.87.5.

What I'm wondering is whether θεραπεία refers to money specifically or some general kind of 'humbling servitude = sucking up'....

The passages which Hoener cites are from Strabo and Dio Cassius. But here are all the passages which use the phrase θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ


Strabo Geogr., Geographica
Book 16, chapter 2, section 46, line 16

Καῖσαρ δὲ καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς ἐτίμησε τοῦ Ἡρώ-
δου καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν Σαλώμην καὶ τὴν ταύτης θυγα-
τέρα Βερενίκην· οὐ μέντοι εὐτύχησαν οἱ παῖδες, ἀλλ'
ἐν αἰτίαις ἐγένοντο, καὶ ὁ μὲν ἐν φυγῇ διετέλει παρὰ
τοῖς Ἀλλόβριξι Γαλάταις λαβὼν οἴκησιν, οἱ δὲ θερα-
πείᾳ πολλῇ μόλις εὕροντο κάθοδον, τετραρχίας ἀπο-
δειχθείσης ἑκατέρῳ.

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Cassius Dio Hist., Historiae Romanae
Book 17, chapter 57, section 73, line 7

καὶ ὃς ἰδὼν αὐτὸν δεδεμένον οὐκ ἤνεγ-
κεν, ἀλλὰ τῆς τε παρ' αὐτῷ ξενίσεως μνημονεύσας, καὶ τὰ ἀνθρώ-
πεια παθήματα ἀναλογισάμενος, ὅτι τε βασιλέα δυνάμεως οὐ σμι-
κρᾶς καὶ ὅτι ἀξιοσπούδαστον καὶ ἑαυτῷ γενόμενον ἑώρα τότε οἰκ-
τρῶς οὕτως ἔχοντα, ἀνεπήδησε μὲν ἐκ τοῦ δίφρου, καὶ ἔλυσέ τε
αὐτὸν καὶ ἐδεξιώσατο καὶ ἐν θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ ἦγε.

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Cassius Dio Hist., Historiae Romanae
Book 19, chapter 62, section 2, line 2

Bekk. Anecd. 166 1.
ὅτι Σέλευκος ὁ τοῦ Ἀντιόχου τὸν τοῦ Ἀφρικανοῦ υἱὸν δια-
πλέοντα ἐκ τῆς Ἑλλάδος λαβὼν ἐν θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ ἐπεποίητο.

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Cassius Dio Hist., Historiae Romanae
Book 20, chapter 66, section 4, line 4

V. 58 (p. 610).
ὅτι ὁ Περσεὺς ἐθελοντὴς εὑρέθη, καὶ αὐτὸν ἐς τὴν Ἀμφίπολιν
ἀχθέντα ὁ Παῦλος οὐδὲν οὔτε ἔργῳ οὔτε λόγῳ δεινὸν ἔδρασεν,
ἀλλὰ καὶ προσιόντι οἱ ὑπαναστὰς τά τε ἄλλα ἐδεξιώσατο καὶ ὁμό-
σιτον ἐποιήσατο, ἔν τε [ἐν] φυλακῇ ἀδέσμῳ καὶ ἐν θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ
ἦγε.

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Achilles Tatius Scr. Erot., Leucippe et Clitophon
Book 5, chapter 17, section 1, line 2

οἰκία μεγάλη καὶ πρώτη τῶν ἐκεῖ· θεραπεία πολλὴ
καὶ ἡ ἄλλη παρασκευὴ πολυτελής.

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Joannes Chrysostomus Scr. Eccl., De Lazaro (homiliae 1-7)
Vol 48, pg 1048, ln 47

Πάντα
γὰρ αὐτῷ ὥσπερ ἐκ πηγῶν ἐπέῤῥει, θεραπεία πολλὴ,
τρυφὴ ἄφατος, σώματος ὑγεία, χρημάτων περιουσία,
τιμὴ παρὰ τῶν πολλῶν, αἱ παρὰ τῶν κολάκων εὐφη-
μίαι, καὶ οὐδὲν ἦν αὐτῷ τέως τὸ λυποῦν.

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Joannes Chrysostomus Scr. Eccl., Epistulae ad Olympiadem (epist. 1-17)
Epistle 9, section 1, line 27

Ἐρεῖ δέ
σοι καὶ ὁ καλὸς Πατρίκιος ὅπως διάγομεν ἐν εὐθυμίᾳ, ἐν
εὐφροσύνῃ, ἐν θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ, τό γε εἰς τὴν διατριβὴν τὴν
ἐνταῦθα ἧκον.

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Constantinus VII Porphyrogenitus Imperator Hist., De virtutibus et vitiis
Volume 2, page 255, line 26

καὶ ὃς ἰδὼν αὐτὸν δεδεμένον
οὐκ ἤνεγκεν, ἀλλὰ τῆς τε παρ' αὐτῷ ξενίσεως μνημονεύσας, καὶ
τὰ ἀνθρώπεια παθήματα ἀναλογισάμενος, ὅτι τε βασιλέα δυνά-
μεως οὐ σμικρᾶς καὶ ὅτι ἀξιοσπούδαστον καὶ ἑαυτῷ γενόμενον
ἑώρα τότε οἰκτρῶς οὕτως ἔχοντα, ἀνεπήδησε μὲν ἐκ τοῦ δίφρου,
καὶ ἔλυσέ τε αὐτὸν καὶ ἐδεξιώσατο καὶ ἐν θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ ἦγε·
51. Πλεῖστοι ὅσοι ἐστρατεύσαντο, ὥς που πολλὰ ἑκουσίως
πολλοὶ ὧν οὐδὲν ἀναγκαζόμενοι δράσειαν ποιοῦσι.

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Constantinus VII Porphyrogenitus Imperator Hist., De virtutibus et vitiis
Volume 2, page 256, line 5

53. Ὅτι Σέλευκος ὁ τοῦ Ἀντιόχου τὸν τοῦ Ἀφρικανοῦ υἱὸν
διαπλέοντα ἐκ τῆς Ἑλλάδος λαβὼν ἐν θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ ἐπεποί-
ητο.

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Constantinus VII Porphyrogenitus Imperator Hist., De virtutibus et vitiis
Volume 2, page 258, line 7

59. Ὅτι ὁ Περσεὺς ἐθελοντὴς εὑρέθη, καὶ αὐτὸν ἐς τὴν Ἀμ-
φίπολιν ἀχθέντα ὁ Παῦλος οὐδὲν οὔτε ἔργῳ οὔτε λόγῳ δεινὸν
ἔδρασεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ προσιόντι οἱ ὑπαναστὰς τά τε ἄλλα ἐδεξιώ-
σατο καὶ ὁμόσιτον ἐποιήσατο, ἔν τε [ἐν] φυλακῇ ἀδέσμῳ καὶ ἐν
θεραπείᾳ πολλῇ ἦγε.

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