Ἀνέχομαι
I despise, I support, I tolerate
Translated by Jennifer Benedict5 Nov 2000Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
[Used] with a genitive.1 "I despise you in your boldness." Also2 [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 goddesses." Whenever we hold the mysteries, he is saying, of the goddesses, Demeter and Persephone, whenever we exalt the ceremonies; for we worship them [i.e. the goddesses] with songs. This is [what] we support [means].3
The [verb]a)ne/xomai means I despise [when it is used] with a genitive; but I tolerate with an accusative.4 "For I do not tolerate the sun on my bare head."5 But a)ne/xomai [when it means I despise is] always with a genitive. "I despise you in your boldness".6 And the physician "tolerates bad smells".7 "Unless it is somehow obvious, [he] would not tolerate the story as [being] false."8
Aristophanes [writes]: "whenever we support the holy rites at times sacred to the two goddesses." Whenever we hold the mysteries, he is saying, of the goddesses, Demeter and Persephone, whenever we exalt the ceremonies; for we worship them [i.e. the goddesses] with songs. This is [what] we support [means].3
The [verb]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀνέχομαι· μετὰ γενικῆς. ἀνέχομαί σου τοῦ θράσους. καὶ Ἀνέχομεν, ἀντὶ τοῦ αὐξάνομεν. Ἀριστοφάνης· ὅταν ὄργια σεμνὰ θεαῖν ἱεραῖς ὥραις ἀνέχωμεν. ὅταν τὰ μυστήρια αὔξωμεν, φησὶν, τῶν θεῶν, Δημήτρας καὶ Περσεφόνης, ὅταν τὰς τελετὰς αὔξωμεν· τοῖς γὰρ ὕμνοις ἐπαίρομεν αὐτάς. τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ ἀνέχομεν. ὅτι τὸ Ἀνέχομαι, ἀντὶ τοῦ καταφρονῶ, μετὰ γενικῆς· τὸ δὲ ὑπομένω, μετὰ αἰτιατικῆς. οὐ γὰρ ἀνέχομαι τὸν ἥλιον γυμνῇ τῇ κεφαλῇ. ὁ δὲ ἀνέχομαι ἀεὶ γενικῇ. ἀνέχομαί σου τοῦ θράσους. καὶ ὁ ἰατρὸς δυσωδίας ἀνέχεται. εἰ μή πώς ἐστι φανερὸν, τὸν λόγον ὡς ψευδῆ οὐκ ἠνέσχετο.
Betacode
*)ane/xomai: meta\ genikh=s. a)ne/xomai/ sou tou= qra/sous. kai\ *)ane/xomen, a)nti\ tou= au)ca/nomen. *)aristofa/nhs: o(/tan o)/rgia semna\ qeai=n i(erai=s w(/rais a)ne/xwmen. o(/tan ta\ musth/ria au)/cwmen, fhsi\n, tw=n qew=n, *dhmh/tras kai\ *persefo/nhs, o(/tan ta\s teleta\s au)/cwmen: toi=s ga\r u(/mnois e)pai/romen au)ta/s. tou=to/ e)sti to\ a)ne/xomen. o(/ti to\ *)ane/xomai, a)nti\ tou= katafronw=, meta\ genikh=s: to\ de\ u(pome/nw, meta\ ai)tiatikh=s. ou) ga\r a)ne/xomai to\n h(/lion gumnh=| th=| kefalh=|. o( de\ a)ne/xomai a)ei\ genikh=|. a)ne/xomai/ sou tou= qra/sous. kai\ o( i)atro\s duswdi/as a)ne/xetai. ei) mh/ pw/s e)sti fanero\n, to\n lo/gon w(s yeudh= ou)k h)ne/sxeto.
Notes (8)
- For this verb, here initially in the middle voice, see already alpha 2361, alpha 2362, alpha 2363.↩
- 1cf. eta 381. ↩
- 2Everything in the entry up to this point appears only in certain manuscripts. ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 948 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. ↩
- 4The entry in LSJ s.v. shows little difference in meaning between
a)ne/xomai with genitive and with accusative. See web address 2. ↩- 5Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 6This quotation, given already above in some mss, comes from the Life of Barlaam and Joasaph attributed to John of Damascus. ↩
- 7Twice in the speeches of Gregory of Nazianzus. ↩
- 8Quotation unidentifiable.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
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Revision history10 revisions · last 15 Jul 2015
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- corrected note number; other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- more betacode; simplified links — Catharine Roth
- changed to betacode — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Jennifer Benedict