Ἐπεκάλει
used to call out
Translated by William Hutton30 Aug 2007Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] used to reproach, used to blame.1 "And as for him, nobody who had ever been one of his friends used to call him out either on his excuses for his sloth, nor on any of the degenerate postponements in his affairs, nor on the insouciance that sprang from his indolence or cowardice. He, though, used to call out many of his friends on such charges."2 Meaning used to reproach [them].
And elsewhere: "they used to call him out as a destroyer of the youth, even labeling him a speaker of obscenities."3
And elsewhere: "they used to call him out as a destroyer of the youth, even labeling him a speaker of obscenities."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐπεκάλει· ὠνείδιζεν, ἐμέμφετο. καὶ αὐτῷ μὲν οὐδεὶς ἐπεκάλει τῶν πώποτε φίλων οὔτε ὄκνου πρόφασιν οὔτε μαλακιζομένην τινὰ ἀναβολὴν ἐν ταῖς χρείαις, οὔτε ῥᾳθυμίαν ἀργίας ἔκγονον ἢ δειλίας. ὁ δὲ πολλοῖς ἐπεκάλει τῶν φίλων τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐγκλήματα. ἀντὶ τοῦ ὠνείδιζε. καὶ αὖθις· ἐπεκάλουν αὐτὸν φθορέα τῶν νέων καὶ κιναιδολόγον ἀποκαλοῦντες.
Betacode
*)epeka/lei: w)nei/dizen, e)me/mfeto. kai\ au)tw=| me\n ou)dei\s e)peka/lei tw=n pw/pote fi/lwn ou)/te o)/knou pro/fasin ou)/te malakizome/nhn tina\ a)nabolh\n e)n tai=s xrei/ais, ou)/te r(a|qumi/an a)rgi/as e)/kgonon h)\ deili/as. o( de\ polloi=s e)peka/lei tw=n fi/lwn ta\ toiau=ta e)gklh/mata. a)nti\ tou= w)nei/dize. kai\ au)=qis: e)peka/loun au)to\n fqore/a tw=n ne/wn kai\ kinaidolo/gon a)pokalou=ntes.
Notes (3)
- 1For this verb cf. epsilon 2349, epsilon 2350, epsilon 2351. Its third person singular imperfect, here, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given, though there are earlier instances, one of which (Lucian, Phalaris 1.2) generated scholiastic glossing. ↩
- 2Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 64 Zintzen (237 and 18 Asmus) ↩
- 3Diogenes Laertius 4.40, on Arcesilaus (alpha 3950). ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 21 Jan 2016
- expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- augmented n.3; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, cross-references — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton