Ἐπελπίζων
causing to hope
Translated by William Hutton6 Sep 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning someone who is] leading [someone else] to hopes. "Partly by causing them to hope with promises, partly by dispersing small amounts of profit to them, but by pillaging and confiscating property from people of nobility and power [...]"1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐπελπίζων· αἰτιατικῇ. εἰς ἐλπίδας ἄγων. τὰ μὲν αὐτοὺς ἐπελπίζων ὑποσχέσεσι, τὰ δὲ ὑποσπείρων αὐτοῖς ὀλίγα κέρδη, τοὺς δὲ ἐν ἀξιώσει τε καὶ δυνάμει περισυλῶν καὶ δημεύων.
Betacode
*)epelpi/zwn: ai)tiatikh=|. ei)s e)lpi/das a)/gwn. ta\ me\n au)tou\s e)pelpi/zwn u(posxe/sesi, ta\ de\ u(pospei/rwn au)toi=s o)li/ga ke/rdh, tou\s de\ e)n a)ciw/sei te kai\ duna/mei perisulw=n kai\ dhmeu/wn.
Notes (1)
- The headword is present participle, masculine nominative singular, of the compound verb
e)pelpi/zw . It is presumably extracted from the quotation given. (The instance in Thucydides 8.54.1 is intransitive, and might anyway be simplee)lpi/zwn .) - 1Aelian fr. 51a Domingo-Forasté (48 Hercher), quoted more extensively (and with some slight differences) at pi 3122, where Baton (fr. 2 Müller) is named as a source for at least part of the information. The subject is Pythagoras, the tyrant of Ephesos. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 22 Jan 2016
- expanded primary note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- updated reference — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- augmented notes — David Whitehead
- tweak, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton