Δοκιμάσας
having put to the test, having scrutinised
Translated by Antonella Ippolito24 Mar 2005Vetting: high14 revisions
Translation
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he] having judged.1
Also [sc. attested is]dokimasqei/sais , ["having been scrutinised"],2 [meaning] having been judged, having been affirmed. "After learning that [the] Romans did not like the peace-terms that had already been scrutinised by Zacharias, Tanchosdro marched against Roman dominions".3
And Aeschylus says, "for I do not want to appear, but to be, right".4
Also [sc. attested is]
And Aeschylus says, "for I do not want to appear, but to be, right".4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δοκιμάσας· αἰτιατικῇ. κρίνας. καὶ Δοκιμασθείσαις, κριθείσαις, βεβαιωθείσαις. μαθὼν ὡς ταῖς ἤδη ὑπὸ Ζαχαρίου δοκιμασθείσαις σπονδαῖς οὐ στέργουσι Ῥωμαῖοι, ἐπαφίησι Τανχοσδρὼ κατὰ τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐπικρατείας. καὶ Αἰσχύλος φησίν, οὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν δίκαιος, ἀλλ' εἶναι θέλω.
Betacode
*dokima/sas: ai)tiatikh=|. kri/nas. kai\ *dokimasqei/sais, kriqei/sais, bebaiwqei/sais. maqw\n w(s tai=s h)/dh u(po\ *zaxari/ou dokimasqei/sais spondai=s ou) ste/rgousi *(rwmai=oi, e)pafi/hsi *tanxosdrw\ kata\ th=s *(rwmai/wn e)pikratei/as. kai\ *ai)sxu/los fhsi/n, ou) ga\r dokei=n di/kaios, a)ll' ei)=nai qe/lw.
Notes (3)
- [1] This primary headword (evidently extracted from somewhere) is the aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb↩
dokima/zw , glossed with the same ofkri/nw ; same gloss in Synagoge delta337, Hesychius delta2124. The glosses given here seem to exclude as a source attestations of the common idiomatic construal of the word with a complementary infinitive -- e.g. Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Excerpta de virtutibus et vitiis 1.7.19, and Anna Comnena 9.8.1, where the sense is 'thinking it advisable to...'; cf. generally epsilon 245.- 2Dative plural (feminine) of the aorist passive participle of the same verb (cf. delta 1328), presumably extracted from the quotation that immediately follows. ↩
- 3Menander Protector fr. 18.4 Blockley (160-163). Zacharias is the name of the archiatrus sacri Palatii; cf. Excerpta Constantini, De legationibus 199.27, with a more extended text and slight differences (
u(po\ *traianou= kai\ *zaxari/ou instead ofu(po\ *zaxari/ou ). As to 'Tanchosdro', it seems to have been a honour title (meaning "strength of Chosroes") rather than a proper name; also at epsilon 962, tau 89. See Blockley (273, note 199). On Chosroes see chi 418 generally. On Zacharias see PLRE IIIb s.v. Zacharias(2) and epsilon 2058. On the late C6 Persian general Tanchosdro see PLRE IIIb s.v. Tamchosroes. See further excerpts from this fragment at theta 413 and pi 1114. ↩- 4Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 592 (web address 1); see already under delta 1070. This quotation illustrates a distinct, though related, verb,
doke/w ('seem').
References
R.C. Blockley, The history of Menander the Guardsman, Liverpool: Cairns, 1985
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from8 entries
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