Διοπτεύσων
intending to spy upon
Translated by Antonella Ippolito10 Jan 2005Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] intending to look thoroughly, intending to watch closely.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Διοπτεύσων· διοψόμενος, κατασκοπήσων.
Betacode
*diopteu/swn: dioyo/menos, kataskoph/swn.
Notes
- = Synagoge delta312, Photius delta647; cf. Hesychius delta1902. From commentary to Homer, Iliad 10.451 (cf. scholia to that passage), where Diomedes [Author, Myth] addresses Dolon with the words "(we will release you... yet you will come to us hereafter) either to spy upon us or to face us in a direct combat" (
h)e\ diopteu/swn h)\ e)nanti/bion polemi/cwn ). See the text at web address 1. The future participle is used as the equivalent of a final clause, in connection with the verbu(/steron ei)=sqa "you will come" of the previous line.