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Ἀπορρῆξαι τὴν ψυχήν · to break off one's life (α 3499) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

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α3495having sacrificed-out
α3496to wither and to mortify in a horrible way
α3497I break off
α3498prohibited
α3499to break off one's life
α3500difficultness
α3501unspeakable [things]
α3502throws away
α3503of an outflow, of a stream

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Ἀπορρῆξαι τὴν ψυχήν

to break off one's life

Translated by Jennifer Benedict4 Jun 2001Vetting: high10 revisions

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3 notes · 47 words

Translation

[Meaning] to expire. "[Him] longing to break off his life and at length succeeding in this."¹
Also [sc. attested is] a)porrh/cousi, [meaning] they will chatter.² The Pisidian [says]: "if we are silent about them, the stones will quickly break out their voices about what has been done."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀπορρῆξαι τὴν ψυχήν· ἐκπνεῦσαι. ἀπορρῆξαι τὴν ψυχὴν διψῶντα μόλις καὶ ὀψὲ τούτου τυχόντα. καὶ Ἀπορρήξουσι, λαλήσουσι. Πισίδης· οὓς εἰ σιωπήσαιμεν, οἱ λίθοι τάχα φωνὰς ἀπορρήξουσι τῶν πεπραγμένων.

Betacode

*)aporrh=cai th\n yuxh/n: e)kpneu=sai. a)porrh=cai th\n yuxh\n diyw=nta mo/lis kai\ o)ye\ tou/tou tuxo/nta. kai\ *)aporrh/cousi, lalh/sousi. *pisi/dhs: ou(\s ei) siwph/saimen, oi( li/qoi ta/xa fwna\s a)porrh/cousi tw=n pepragme/nwn.

Notes (3)

The headword phrase (with its aorist infinitive) is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
1Aelian fr. 10l Domingo-Forasté (part of fr. 10 Hercher); cf. tau 477. For this idiom see generally LSJ s.v. a)porrh/gnumi. ↩
2It is not immediately obvious how the headword verb, a)porrh/gnumi, can bear this meaning, but see (besides the quotation about to be given) LSJ s.v., I.2, citing e.g. Appian, Civil War 2.81 (Pompey bursts out with, a)pe/rrhcen, a remark). ↩
3George of Pisidia, On the Persian Expedition 3.39-40, Eraclio e le guerre di Persia 3.39-40 Tartaglia; on the poet's obligation to tell the pure and simple truth; cf. Luke 19.40. The original text reads pe/trai, "rocks", not the Suda's li/qoi.

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Neighbouring entries

α3497ἈπορρήγνυμιI break off α3498Ἀπορρηθένprohibited α3499Ἀπορρῆξαι τὴν ψυχήνto break off one's life α3500Ἀπορησίαdifficultness α3501Ἀπόρρηταunspeakable [things]

Revision history10 revisions · last 5 Aug 2025

5 Aug 2025coding fix, augmented n.3 — Ronald Allen
4 Aug 2025expanded n.3, added keywords — Ronald Allen
28 Aug 2015 — David Whitehead
27 Jan 2012tweaked tr; another note — David Whitehead
26 Jan 2012cosmetics — Catharine Roth
28 Mar 2011tweaks — David Whitehead
28 Mar 2011updated reference, added keyword — Catharine Roth
29 May 2002modified translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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4 Jun 2001Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀπορρῆξαι τὴν ψυχήν (Adler number alpha 3499), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 4 Jun 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3499

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by Ronald Allen, David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗