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Δυσαρεστούμενος · displeased (δ 1596) · Suda

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Near δ1596

δ1592with displeasure
δ1593fractious, irritable
δ1594of tempestuous winds
δ1595hard to withstand
δ1596displeased
δ1597unhappy mother of the noblest son
δ1598Dysaules, Dusaules
δ1599burdensome, grievous, hard to endure
δ1600untraversables

Suda/Δ delta/δ1596

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Δυσαρεστούμενος

displeased

Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo14 Mar 2005Vetting: high8 revisions

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3 notes · 47 words

Translation

[Meaning someone who is] not satisfied.¹
"The Romans maintained that the senate was displeased at the destruction of the walls at Sparta↗".²
And elsewhere: "so it is difficult to admonish peevish men, if you fear those who wish to love, but always supplicate those who are unwilling".³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δυσαρεστούμενος· μὴ ἀρεσκόμενος. οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι ἔφασαν τὴν σύγκλητον δυσαρεστεῖσθαι τῇ τῶν ἐν Λακεδαίμονι τειχῶν καθαιρέσει. καὶ αὖθις· χαλεπὸν μὲν οὖν ἄνδρας δυσαρέστους νουθετεῖν, εἰ τοὺς φιλεῖν μὲν βουλομένους δεδοίκατε, τοὺς δ' οὐκ ἐθέλοντας ἀντιβολεῖσθ' ἑκάστοτε.

Betacode

*dusarestou/menos: mh\ a)resko/menos. oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi e)/fasan th\n su/gklhton dusarestei=sqai th=| tw=n e)n *lakedai/moni teixw=n kaqaire/sei. kai\ au)=qis: xalepo\n me\n ou)=n a)/ndras dusare/stous nouqetei=n, ei) tou\s filei=n me\n boulome/nous dedoi/kate, tou\s d' ou)k e)qe/lontas a)ntibolei=sq' e(ka/stote.

Notes (3)

The headword is present middle participle, masculine nominative singular, of dusareste/w. Perhaps taken from Polybius, who uses forms of this participle more often than other authors (and this particular form at 3.112.2, 9.3.4, 9.29.8). The quotations in the entry display words related to the headword, but not any form of the headword proper.
1= Synagoge delta389; Photius, Lexicon delta797; cf. Hesychius delta2526 and delta2527, where different forms of the participle are glossed similarly. ↩
2A close approximation of Diodorus Siculus 29.17.1 (via Excerpta Constantiniana EL 400.26-7), using the present middle/passive infinitive of dusareste/w. Classical Sparta had been famous for its lack of a city wall (cf. Thucydides 1.10), but the hellenistic period was another matter: a rudimentary ditch-and-palisade was built in c.317 (Diodorus Siculus 18.75.2, 19.35.1), and the (authentic) circuit-wall referred to here had been built by Nabis (nu 5) and destroyed by Philopoemen (phi 409). ↩
3Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 180-2 (web address 1); quoted also at epsilon 357. Note the substitution of ei) ('if') here for oi(/ ('[you] who') in the original. In place of a form of the headword this passage contains the accusative plural masculine form of the roughly synonymous verbal adjective dusa/restos ('peevish').

External resources

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Linked from1 entry

ε357Ἑκάστοτεeach time[Used] instead of a)ei/ ["always"]; for pa/ntote is not used. Babrius [writes]: "so the girl in her prime plucked each time whatever hairs she found turning white." And elsewhere: "you fear those who wish to love, but…

Neighbouring entries

δ1594Δυσαῶν ἀνέμωνof tempestuous winds δ1595Δυσάντητονhard to withstand δ1596Δυσαρεστούμενοςdispleased δ1597Δυσαριστοτόκειαunhappy mother of the noblest son δ1598ΔυσαύληςDysaules, Dusaules

Revision history8 revisions · last 16 Nov 2015

16 Nov 2015Revised — David Whitehead
5 Mar 2015Revised — David Whitehead
19 Jul 2012expanded n.2; cosmetics — David Whitehead
25 Jan 2012upgraded link — Catharine Roth
25 Jan 2012modified note — Philip Rance
20 Dec 2007augmented and rearranged notes, added keywords, set status — William Hutton
17 Mar 2005added link — Catharine Roth
15 Mar 2005augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
14 Mar 2005Translated — Stefano Sanfilippo

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Δυσαρεστούμενος (Adler number delta 1596), trans. Stefano Sanfilippo, 14 Mar 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/1596

Translation by Stefano Sanfilippo for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, Philip Rance, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗