Ἀνθομολογησόμεθα
we will make a covenant
Translated by Jennifer Benedict6 Jul 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Meaning we will give thanks.
David [says]: "we will make a covenant with you, O God." We promise gratitude for your kindness and will make this recorded.1
Also [sc. attested is]a)nqwmologei=to ["he/she/it would confess"], [meaning] he/she/it would admit.
"[L. Aemilius Paullus] would afterwards confess to certain people in Rome that he had seen nothing more frightening and more terrible than a Macedonian phalanx."2
And elsewhere: "so they confessed these things to one another."3
Meaning they discussed, they reached agreement.
And elsewhere: "this is what Meletus indicted and agreed concerning Socrates."4
David [says]: "we will make a covenant with you, O God." We promise gratitude for your kindness and will make this recorded.1
Also [sc. attested is]
"[L. Aemilius Paullus] would afterwards confess to certain people in Rome that he had seen nothing more frightening and more terrible than a Macedonian phalanx."2
And elsewhere: "so they confessed these things to one another."3
Meaning they discussed, they reached agreement.
And elsewhere: "this is what Meletus indicted and agreed concerning Socrates."4