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Ἐπιτολμῆσαι · to make a daring attack on (ε 2709) · Suda

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ε2705suckling
ε2706added-in
ε2707nursling
ε2708of a raising
ε2709to make a daring attack on
ε2710abridged
ε2711most abridged, very abridged
ε2712I was pitching-up
ε2713backstay

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Ἐπιτολμῆσαι

to make a daring attack on

Translated by William Hutton12 Dec 2007Vetting: high4 revisions

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1 note · 44 words

Translation

[Used] with a dative. [Meaning] to plot against.¹ "And he persuades them to make a daring attack on Lykides and Sosibios, and, such as he is, and they being merchants, flatters them and easily persuades them, even though it was the dead of night."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπιτολμῆσαι· δοτικῇ. ἐπιβουλεύσασθαι. καὶ ἀναπείθει ἐπιτολμῆσαι τῷ Λυκίδῃ καὶ τῷ Σωσιβίῳ, ἐπαίρει δὲ ἅτε φορτηγοὺς τοιοῦτος ῥᾷστά τε ἀναπείθει, καὶ νυκτὸς γενομένης ἀκράτου.

Betacode

*)epitolmh=sai: dotikh=|. e)pibouleu/sasqai. kai\ a)napei/qei e)pitolmh=sai tw=| *luki/dh| kai\ tw=| *swsibi/w|, e)pai/rei de\ a(/te forthgou\s toiou=tos r(a=|sta/ te a)napei/qei, kai\ nukto\s genome/nhs a)kra/tou.

Notes (1)

[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is aorist active infinitive of the compound verb e)pitolma/w. For another instance of it with the dative see under alpha 4218.
2Aelian fr. 262 Hercher, 260 Domingo-Forasté. (See also under epsilon 2759.) Kuster suggested emending the nominative singular toiou=tos to the accusative plural toiou/tous, which would render the second part as "and he flatters them, being merchants of such a sort.". Adler did not follow this, but did adopt Bernhardy's expansion of the second name given, transmitted (and printed by Hercher) as Sos.

Linked from1 entry

ε2759Ἐπιφυόμενοςapplying himself to, attaching himself to[Used] with a dative. [Meaning he] clinging to. "Attaching himself to [others of] them with his hands he begged them [...] to help in his time of distress." And elsewhere: "when night had come they applied themselves to…

Neighbouring entries

ε2707Ἐπίτιτθονnursling ε2708Ἐπιτολῆςof a raising ε2709Ἐπιτολμῆσαιto make a daring attack on ε2710Ἐπίτομοςabridged ε2711Ἐπιτομώτατονmost abridged, very abridged

Revision history4 revisions · last 21 Oct 2012

21 Oct 2012expanded n.2; tweaking — David Whitehead
13 Feb 2008added cross-reference — William Hutton
12 Dec 2007restored keywords — David Whitehead
12 Dec 2007supplemented translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
12 Dec 2007Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπιτολμῆσαι (Adler number epsilon 2709), trans. William Hutton, 12 Dec 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2709

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