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Καταβολή · onset (κ 481) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near κ481

κ477I descend from you, I dismount from you
κ478arrow-struck
κ479I mismanage, I treat carelessly
κ480outcry
κ481onset
κ482instalment
κ483onset, wheeling-about
κ484I inveigh against
κ485flowing-haired

Suda/Κ kappa/κ481

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Καταβολή

onset

Translated by Ronald Allen1 Dec 2007Vetting: high7 revisions

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1 note · 26 words

Translation

[Meaning] a recurrent grip of fever.¹
"But after the Macedonians had closed, [?]from the onset, on the barbarians, they immediately broke ranks and began to flee."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Καταβολή· περιοδικὴ λῆψις πυρετοῦ. τῶν δὲ Μακεδόνων ἐκ καταβολῆς συνερεισάντων τοῖς βαρβάροις, εὐθέως ἐκκλίναντες ἔφευγον.

Betacode

*katabolh/: periodikh\ lh=yis puretou=. tw=n de\ *makedo/nwn e)k katabolh=s sunereisa/ntwn toi=s barba/rois, eu)qe/ws e)kkli/nantes e)/feugon.

Notes (1)

[1] The headword (also kappa 482, kappa 483) has the same gloss in Photius and in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. This sense (LSJ's III) of katabolh/ is attested in Plato, Gorgias 519A (web address 1) and also -- though as the variant kathbolh/ -- in Hippias Minor 372E (web address 2).
2Polybius fr. 168 Büttner-Wobst. [In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that Schweighäuser replaced e)k katabolh=s with e)k metabolh=s, "after a wheeling-about manoeuvre," which Büttner-Wobst (536) adopts.] Büttner-Wobst notes (ibid.) that Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this fragment to Polybius.

References

T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from3 entries

κ476ΚαταβάλλωI overthrow, I strike down[Used] with an accusative.
κ482ΚαταβολήinstalmentDemosthenes [in the] ninth Philippic [writes]: "just like a cycle or instalment of a fever". In cyclical diseases one speaks of an "instalment" because of the fact that it occurs at a set time, in the way that the…
κ483Καταβολήonset, wheeling-about[Meaning an] inaugurating action/operation. "From onset [sc. of manufacture], fifty ships to construct, and fifty to come down from the existing shipyards." Polybius [sc. writes this]. "The pirates, having beheld the…

Neighbouring entries

κ479ΚαταβλακεύωI mismanage, I treat carelessly κ480Καταβοήoutcry κ481Καταβολήonset κ482Καταβολήinstalment κ483Καταβολήonset, wheeling-about

Revision history7 revisions · last 20 Apr 2019

20 Apr 2019corrected cross-reference — Catharine Roth
20 Apr 2019another link — Catharine Roth
26 Oct 2018expanded n.2, cosmetics in bibliography — Ronald Allen
22 Dec 2014coding — Catharine Roth
30 Jan 2013tweaking — David Whitehead
2 Dec 2007tweaked headword, tr; modified and augmented notes — David Whitehead
1 Dec 2007modified translation, other cosmetics — Catharine Roth
1 Dec 2007Translated — Ronald Allen

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Καταβολή (Adler number kappa 481), trans. Ronald Allen, 1 Dec 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/481

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