Ἀνέχει
sustains
Translated by Jennifer Benedict2 Nov 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] preserves; not, as some [say], meaning holds up [e)pe/xei ]. And Thucydides [says]: "surpluses of money are what sustain wars."1 Meaning preserve [them].
And elsewhere: "they sustain the besieged silence".2
Alternativelya)ne/xein [can mean] to lift. "[...] as the mud to fall down into a yawning abyss and none of the surface able to raise [it]."3
And elsewhere: "they sustain the besieged silence".2
Alternatively
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀνέχει· σῴζει· οὐχ ὥς τινες ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπέχει. καὶ Θουκυδίδης· αἱ περιουσίαι τῶν χρημάτων τοὺς πολέμους ἀνέχουσιν. ἀντὶ τοῦ σῴζουσι. καὶ αὖθις· τὴν πορθουμένην ἀνέχονται σιγήν. ἢ Ἀνέχειν, βαστάζειν. ὡς τὸν πηλὸν ἐς ἀχανὲς ἐκπίπτειν βάθος καὶ μηδὲν ἐπιπολῆς ἀνέχειν δύνασθαι.
Betacode
*)ane/xei: sw/|zei: ou)x w(/s tines a)nti\ tou= e)pe/xei. kai\ *qoukudi/dhs: ai( periousi/ai tw=n xrhma/twn tou\s pole/mous a)ne/xousin. a)nti\ tou= sw/|zousi. kai\ au)=qis: th\n porqoume/nhn a)ne/xontai sigh/n. h)\ *)ane/xein, basta/zein. w(s to\n phlo\n e)s a)xane\s e)kpi/ptein ba/qos kai\ mhde\n e)pipolh=s a)ne/xein du/nasqai.
Notes (3)
- The first part of this entry is also in Photius and other lexica.↩
For this verb cf. alpha 2361, alpha 1363, alpha 2364.- 1Thucydides 1.141.5 (web address 1). ↩
- 2Quotation unidentifiable. (Perhaps textually faulty; if not, 'besieged' is used figuratively.) ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
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- α2363Ἀνέχειexalts[Meaning he/she/it] reveres, honors. Sophocles [writes]: "since Ajax exalts you, his spear-won mate, loving your bed." Meaning since Ajax honors you as spear-won, loving your bed. Or thus: but since Ajax exalts you the…
- α2364ἈνέχομαιI despise, I support, I tolerate[Used] with a genitive. "I despise you in your boldness." Also [sc. attested is] a)ne/xomen ["we support"], meaning we exalt. Aristophanes [writes]: "whenever we support the holy rites at times sacred to the two…
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Revision history6 revisions · last 7 Oct 2013
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- Translated — Jennifer Benedict