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Καταρτύσων · intending to prepare (κ 758) · 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 κ758

κ754I cast down
κ755downstream, with the flow
κ756I call down curses on
κ757I equip, I furnish
κ758intending to prepare
κ759beginnings
κ760I begin with you
κ761shakes down
κ762to injure

Suda/Κ kappa/κ758

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Καταρτύσων

intending to prepare

Translated by Edward Whitehouse26 Mar 2008Vetting: high6 revisions

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2 notes · 39 words

Translation

[Meaning someone] intending to arrange, intending to make ready. Sophocles [writes]: "for what purpose, in order to say something [to him] or intending to prepare the way [for him] to come?"¹ And Homer [writes]: "Clytemnestra was preparing a snare".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Καταρτύσων· παρασκευάσων, εὐτρεπίσων. Σοφοκλῆς· ὡς πρὸς τί λέξων ἢ καταρτύσων μολεῖν; καὶ Ὅμηρος· Κλυταιμνήστρα δόλον ἤρτυεν.

Betacode

*katartu/swn: paraskeua/swn, eu)trepi/swn. *sofoklh=s: w(s pro\s ti/ le/cwn h)\ katartu/swn molei=n; kai\ *(/omhros: *klutaimnh/stra do/lon h)/rtuen.

Notes (2)

The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is the masculine nominative singular, future active participle, of the verb katartu/w; cf. generally kappa 757 (katarti/zw).
1Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 71 (web address 1), with scholion. For molei=n ("to come"), other manuscripts read either ti/ soi ("[to arrange] something for you") or mo/loi, with final w(s, ("that he may come"). For katartu/swn molei=n, Jebb (below ad loc.; web address 2) offers: "to prepare things (to work upon his mind, directly or indirectly), so that he shall come". Compare also Kamerbeek (below ad loc.): "put pressure on"; see also LSJ s.v. 2 (web address 3).
For other uses of katartu/w see, inter alia: Solon 27.11; Sophocles, Antigone 478; Plato, Laws 808D; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.392; Plutarch, Moralia 38D. ↩
2Homer, Odyssey 11.439 (web address 4). The context is Odysseus' conversation with Agamemnon in the Underworld. In place of do/lon other manuscripts read either xo/lon ("rage") or fo/non ("murder"). Other Homeric uses of a)rtu/w are found at Iliad 18.379 and Odyssey 4.771.

References

Jebb, Richard C. Sophocles. The Plays and Fragments: Part II. The Oedipus Coloneus. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1889
Kamerbeek, J.C. The Plays of Sophocles. Commentaries: Part VII. The Oedipus Coloneus

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 4 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

κ756ΚαταρῶμαιI call down curses on κ757ΚαταρτίζωI equip, I furnish κ758Καταρτύσωνintending to prepare κ759<20Καταρχαίbeginnings κ760Κατάρχω σουI begin with you

Revision history6 revisions · last 11 Jan 2015

11 Jan 2015tweaked link — Catharine Roth
11 Jan 2015coding, upgraded link — Catharine Roth
4 Feb 2013tweaking; raised status — David Whitehead
27 Mar 2008modified notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
26 Mar 2008modified hw, tr, notes; added links and fixed broken one; set status — Jennifer Benedict
26 Mar 2008cosmetics — Catharine Roth
26 Mar 2008Translated — Edward Whitehouse

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Καταρτύσων (Adler number kappa 758), trans. Edward Whitehouse, 26 Mar 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/758

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