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Δυσθετήσας · dissatisfied (δ 1640) · Suda

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δ1636sea-dipped (nets)
δ1637hard to heal
δ1638longing for death, about to die a difficult death
δ1639godless, ungodly
δ1640dissatisfied
δ1641hard to catch
δ1642despondent
δ1643hard to remember
δ1644discordant

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Δυσθετήσας

dissatisfied

Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo22 Mar 2005Vetting: high7 revisions

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3 notes · 48 words

Translation

"But Nabis, dissatisfied with the agreements, did not attend to the written terms".¹ Meaning not pleased with the agreements,² not abiding by [them].
Also [sc. attested is] dusqetou/menoi, meaning [they who are] ill-disposed. And [the passage goes on to say], "ill-disposed to what was happening they desisted hastily".³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δυσθετήσας· ὁ δὲ Νάβις δυσθετήσας ταῖς συνθήκαις οὐ προσέσχε τοῖς γραφεῖσιν. ἀντὶ τοῦ μὴ στέρξας ταῖς συνθήκαις, μὴ ἐμμείνας. καὶ Δυσθετούμενοι, ἀντὶ τοῦ κακῶς διατιθέμενοι. καί, δυσθετούμενοι τοῖς συμβαίνουσιν ἀποδυσπετοῦσι.

Betacode

*dusqeth/sas: o( de\ *na/bis dusqeth/sas tai=s sunqh/kais ou) prose/sxe toi=s grafei=sin. a)nti\ tou= mh\ ste/rcas tai=s sunqh/kais, mh\ e)mmei/nas. kai\ *dusqetou/menoi, a)nti\ tou= kakw=s diatiqe/menoi. kai/, dusqetou/menoi toi=s sumbai/nousin a)poduspetou=si.

Notes (3)

The headword (presumably extracted from the first quotation given) is the aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of dusqete/w. In fact this verb occurs almost exclusively in participle forms in all periods (mainly in historians such as Xenophon, Polybius, and Diodorus Siculus; it is rare in other writers).
There is little substantive difference between its active and middle voices, both illustrated here.
1Polybius fr. 128 Büttner-Wobst. For Nabis see generally nu 5. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 531) that Ursinus (Fulvio Orsini, 1529-1600) attributed the fragment to Polybius. However, noting that there is no instance of dusqetei=n in the active voice elsewhere in Polybius, Schweighäuser remained doubtful that the fragment was genuinely Polybian (Walbank, p.752). Walbank (ibid.) suggests that the fragment could be correlated with Nabis's (202-201 BCE) plans to attack Messene (cf. mu 659 and Polybius 16.13.3 at web address 1). ↩
2This first gloss is also in ps.-Zonaras s.v. ↩
3Polybius 33.17.1 (participle only) and 2 (quoted phrase, with a slight difference: the original is dusqetou/menoi toi=s sumbai/nousin a)poduspetei=n a)nagka/zontai, which occurs in alpha 3306 without any difference). The direct source is Constantinus VII Porphyrogenitus, De sententiis 200.27.

References

T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, (Oxford 1979)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from2 entries

α3306Ἀποδυσπετεῖgives up[Meaning he/she/it] bemoans. "Dissatisfied with the outcome, they are compelled to give up."
δ1636Δυσιθάλασσαsea-dipped (nets)[Meaning] the ones that are put into the sea. And [sc. witness the phrase] "nets [...] sea-dipped".

Neighbouring entries

δ1638Δυσθανατῶνταlonging for death, about to die a difficult death δ1639Δύσθεοςgodless, ungodly δ1640Δυσθετήσαςdissatisfied δ1641Δυσθήρατοςhard to catch δ1642Δύσθυμοςdespondent

Revision history7 revisions · last 20 Aug 2018

20 Aug 2018augmented n.1, added link — Ronald Allen
19 Aug 2018expanded n.1, added bibliography, added keywords — Ronald Allen
8 Mar 2015betacode typo — Catharine Roth
3 Dec 2014small adjustments — David Whitehead
3 Dec 2014coding — Catharine Roth
20 Jul 2012another note and keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
23 Mar 2005modified translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
22 Mar 2005Translated — Stefano Sanfilippo

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Δυσθετήσας (Adler number delta 1640), trans. Stefano Sanfilippo, 22 Mar 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/1640

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