Καθεῖναι
to let grow
Translated by David Whitehead16 Jul 2001Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to let loose downwards.1
"They say that Antisthenes was the first to let his beard grow and to use a pouch and staff".2
"They say that Antisthenes was the first to let his beard grow and to use a pouch and staff".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Καθεῖναι· ἐπὶ τὸ κάτω ἀπολῦσαι. Ἀντισθένην φασὶ πρῶτον πώγωνα καθεῖναι καὶ βάκτρῳ καὶ πήρᾳ χρήσασθαι.
Betacode
*kaqei=nai: e)pi\ to\ ka/tw a)polu=sai. *)antisqe/nhn fasi\ prw=ton pw/gwna kaqei=nai kai\ ba/ktrw| kai\ ph/ra| xrh/sasqai.
Notes (2)
- 1Aorist active infinitive of
kaqi/hmi . Same glossing in other lexica. ↩ - 2A clumsy summary of Diogenes Laertius 6.13; the claim about beard-growing actually concerns not Antisthenes (alpha 2723) but another philosopher, Diodoros of Aspendos. For the idiom
pw/gwna kaqei=nai see already Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 99-100, and generally LSJ s.v.kaqi/hmi . ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 11 Mar 2019
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added x-ref and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead