Ἀποσκευάζοντες

making away with

Translated by Jennifer Benedict3 Jun 2001Vetting: high8 revisions

3 notes · 48 words

[Meaning they] taking away.¹
"For he was indeed intending to run the risk, lest he should anticipate them and make away with the boy."² Meaning take away and hide [him].
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] a)poskeua/sai th\n tra/pezan ["to clear the table"], [meaning] to make it clean.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀποσκευάζοντες· ἀποφέροντες. καὶ γὰρ κινδυνεύσειν ἔμελλεν, εἰ μὴ φθάσας τὸ μειράκιον ἀποσκευάσαιτο. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀποθοῖτο ἀνελών. καὶ Ἀποσκευάσαι τὴν τράπεζαν, καθαρὰν ποιῆσαι.

Betacode

*)aposkeua/zontes: a)pofe/rontes. kai\ ga\r kinduneu/sein e)/mellen, ei) mh\ fqa/sas to\ meira/kion a)poskeua/saito. a)nti\ tou= a)poqoi=to a)nelw/n. kai\ *)aposkeua/sai th\n tra/pezan, kaqara\n poih=sai.

Notes (3)

1The headword is present participle, masculine nominative plural, of a)poskeua/zw. Same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere. ↩
2Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
3Likewise in other lexica; presumably a quotation, but unidentifiable. ↩

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α3525ἈποσκευάζομαιI make away with[Used] with an accusative.

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α3522Ἀπόσιτοςabstinent, fasting α3523Ἀποσκευαζόμενοςdiscarding, discounting, disowning, jettisoning α3524Ἀποσκευάζοντεςmaking away with α3525ἈποσκευάζομαιI make away with α3526Ἀποσκευήbaggage-train

Revision history8 revisions · last 16 Jan 2025

16 Jan 2025tweaked translation as suggested by Catharine Roth — Ronald Allen
16 Jan 2025changed attribution in n.2 — Ronald Allen
29 Aug 2015Revised — David Whitehead
11 Jul 2015coding — Catharine Roth
17 Jan 2014cosmetics — David Whitehead
5 Apr 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
3 Mar 2011augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
22 Aug 2002added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
3 Jun 2001Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Translation

Greek original · Adler’s text

Notes (3)

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