Βαστάσας
having raised up
Translated by Craig Gibson6 Jun 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Meaning having approved as fit.1 Eupolis [writes]: "come on now, do you want to hear the composition of an ode or something in the ancient mode? You will say both. But I, after listening, will choose the mode that you would seem to me to have raised up."2
"Taking into consideration and raising up everything likely to happen."3 Meaning approving [it] as fit.
Also [sc. attested is the related neuter noun]ba/stagma ["burden"]: "it became evident why the city's burden was large. For they handed over more than two hundred thousand weapons to the Romans, and two [thousand] catapults."4
Also [sc. the aorist infinitive]basta/sai does not signify "to raise up" in Attic authors, but rather means to inspect and to weigh and to examine the weight of something with the hand.5
"Taking into consideration and raising up everything likely to happen."3 Meaning approving [it] as fit.
Also [sc. attested is the related neuter noun]
Also [sc. the aorist infinitive]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Βαστάσας· ἀντὶ τοῦ δοκιμάσας. Εὔπολις· ἄγε δὴ, πότερα βούλεσθε τὴν διάθεσιν ᾠδῆς ἀκούειν ἢ τὸν ἀρχαῖον τρόπον; ἀμφότερ' ἐρεῖς. ἐγὼ δ' ἀκούσας τὸν τρόπον, ὃν ἂν δοκῇ μοι βαστάσας, αἱρήσομαι. πᾶν τὸ συμβησόμενον ἐπὶ λόγον ἄγων καὶ βαστάζων. ἀντὶ τοῦ δοκιμάζων. καὶ Βάσταγμα· δῆλον ἐπένετο διότι μέγα τὸ βάσταγμα τῆς πόλεως ἦν. πλεῖον γὰρ κʹ μυριάδων ὅπλα παρέδωκαν Ῥωμαίοις καὶ καταπέλτας ʹ22βʹ. καὶ Βαστάσαι οὐ τὸ ἆραι δηλοῖ παρὰ τοῖς Ἀττικοῖς, ἀλλὰ τὸ ψηλαφῆσαι καὶ διασηκῶσαι καὶ διασκέψασθαι τῇ χειρὶ τὴν ὁλκήν.
Betacode
*basta/sas: a)nti\ tou= dokima/sas. *eu)/polis: a)/ge dh\, po/tera bou/lesqe th\n dia/qesin w)|dh=s a)kou/ein h)\ to\n a)rxai=on tro/pon; a)mfo/ter' e)rei=s. e)gw\ d' a)kou/sas to\n tro/pon, o(\n a)\n dokh=| moi basta/sas, ai(rh/somai. pa=n to\ sumbhso/menon e)pi\ lo/gon a)/gwn kai\ basta/zwn. a)nti\ tou= dokima/zwn. kai\ *ba/stagma: dh=lon e)pe/neto dio/ti me/ga to\ ba/stagma th=s po/lews h)=n. plei=on ga\r k# muria/dwn o(/pla pare/dwkan *(rwmai/ois kai\ katape/ltas #22b#. kai\ *basta/sai ou) to\ a)=rai dhloi= para\ toi=s *)attikoi=s, a)lla\ to\ yhlafh=sai kai\ diashkw=sai kai\ diaske/yasqai th=| xeiri\ th\n o(lkh/n.
Notes (5)
- The headword, an aorist participle, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.↩
cf. generally beta 172.- 1cf. epsilon 22. ↩
- 2Eupolis fr. 303 Kock, now 326 Kassel-Austin. ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 4Polybius 36.6.7 (preserved only here), on the surrender of Carthage. ↩
- 5Again at delta 750.
Linked from4 entries
- β128Βαρυδαίμωνill-fated[Meaning] unfortunate. "But he, being a Cretan and naturally quick-witted, was weighing up every fact and sounding out every intention." ["Was weighing up"] meaning was examining.
- β172ΒαστάζωI lift up, I raise, I exalt[Used] with an accusative.
- δ750Διασηκῶσαιto weigh[Note] that basta/sai does not mean 'to lift up' among the Attic writers, but to inspect and to weigh and to examine the weight of something with the hand.
- ε22ἘβάστασενweighedMeaning [he/she/it] scrutinized. "[She] examined all appearances, weighed everything in her mind, and found words abundant and elegant".
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Revision history5 revisions · last 4 Mar 2015
- expanded n.4 — David Whitehead
- updated a ref — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified translation; added notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Craig Gibson