Διδαξάμενος
having [someone] taught
Translated by Catharine Roth25 Apr 2004Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] completing something on behalf of another for a teacher.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Διδαξάμενος· τελέσας τι ὑπὲρ ἑτέρου διδασκάλῳ.
Betacode
*didaca/menos: tele/sas ti u(pe\r e(te/rou didaska/lw|.
Notes
- Same entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, compiled at some time between the first and the fourth centuries CE. Similar one, later, in Photius, Lexicon delta520, though the glossing there is corrupted into
tele/sas ti u(pe/rteron didaska/lou . (The Suda'sdidaska/lw| is not in ms T, Adler reports, and in G and I seems to start a new entry, but the text she prints is surely the correct one.)
For a discussion of the middle voice ofdida/skw , see delta 857. The present headword is its aorist participle, in the masculine nominative singular. It is presumably quoted from somewhere;didaca/menos itself does not occur in the extant works of Plato, though see Republic 467E fordidacame/nous and Menexenus 238B fordidaca/menoi ; alternatively (since Timaeus did not in fact confine himself to Plato), from another author.