Ἀπαιτέων
demanding back
Translated by Jennifer Benedict15 May 2001Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
[*)apaite/wn means the same as] a)paitw=n .1 Phocylides [writes]: "avoid a man who is a bad debtor, lest he repent of giving you [money], demanding it back at an inconvenient time."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀπαιτέων· ἀπαιτῶν. Φωκυλίδης· χρήστας κακοὺς ἔμμεναι ἀνδρὸς φεύγειν μή γε ἀνιήσειε διδοὺς, παρὰ καιρὸν ἀπαιτέων.
Betacode
*)apaite/wn: a)paitw=n. *fwkuli/dhs: xrh/stas kakou\s e)/mmenai a)ndro\s feu/gein mh/ ge a)nih/seie didou\s, para\ kairo\n a)paite/wn.
Notes (1)
- [1] Headword and gloss are the same present participle (masculine nominative singular), the former uncontracted (and extracted, presumably, from the quotation given).↩
- 2Phocylides fr.16 Bergk; quoted from chi 509. (In both places the transmitted
ge should bese .) For Phocylides see phi 643, and generally M.L. West, Journal of Hellenic Studies 98 (1978) 164-167 and again in OCD(4) s.v. (p.1139). - 2Phocylides fr.16 Bergk; quoted from chi 509. (In both places the transmitted
Linked from3 entries
- α2964ἈπαιτοῦμαιI demand[Used] with an accusative.
- α2965Ἀπαιτητέαdemands, things which it is necessary to demand['Things which it is necessary to demand']; also [sc. attested is the singular] a)paithte/on, meaning [something] which it is necessary to demand.
- χ509Χρῆσταιchrestai[Meaning] moneylenders. [But the term] chrestai [can mean] both the lender and the borrower. Aristophanes calls the moneylenders chrestai; for whereas common usage calls chrestai those who owe the debts, Athenians say…
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