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κ777to draw down
κ778I live wantonly
κ779urging on
κ780[one who] had been eager
κ781having sown
κ782I sow
κ783in accordance with zeal
κ784being drawn down, being pulled down
κ785appointed, established

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Κατασπείρας

having sown

Translated by Edward Whitehouse13 Sep 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

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1 note · 36 words

Translation

[Meaning someone] having provided a source of misfortunes. For the [term] "having sown" must apply to a great number of misfortunes. "How many troubles you [Ajax] have sown for me in dying." Sophocles [sc. says this].¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κατασπείρας· ἀρχὴν κακῶν παρασχών. τὸ γὰρ σπείρας ἐπὶ πλήθους κακῶν τακτέον. ὅσας ἀνίας μοι κατασπείρας φθίνεις. Σοφοκλῆς.

Betacode

*kataspei/ras: a)rxh\n kakw=n parasxw/n. to\ ga\r spei/ras e)pi\ plh/qous kakw=n takte/on. o(/sas a)ni/as moi kataspei/ras fqi/neis. *sofoklh=s.

Notes (1)

The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is the aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the compound verb kataspei/rw (kappa 782).
1Sophocles, Ajax 1005, with a gloss from the scholia vetera thereto. Compare also the scholia to Ajax 1000 in Dindorf (below, p. 226.23–24): o(/swn lupw=n a)formh\n dou/s ("How much distress you have given occasion to"). In this scene, Teucer laments the suicide of his half-brother Ajax and the hopeless situation it has created for himself. The preverb kata- should perhaps be seen merely as an intensifier. Cf. Kamerbeek (below ad loc.): "not 'having strewn over me', but 'having sown for me'." Also, compare LSJ s.v. 1, citing this line, and 2.II. Other uses of the verb: Euripides, Hercules 469; Plutarch, Theseus 3.2, Demetrius 4.2, etc.

References

Dindorf, G., ed. Scholia in Sophoclis Tragoedias Septem, ex Codicibus Aucta et Emendata. Vol. II. Oxonii: E Typographeo Academico, 1852
Kamerbeek, J.C. The Plays of Sophocles. Commentaries: Part I. The Ajax. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1983

Linked from1 entry

κ782ΚατασπείρωI sowThe [verb that means] I plant. [Used] with a genitive.

Neighbouring entries

κ779Κατασπέρχωνurging on κ780Κατασπεύσαντα[one who] had been eager κ781Κατασπείραςhaving sown κ782ΚατασπείρωI sow κ783Κατὰ σπουδήνin accordance with zeal

Revision history4 revisions · last 8 Jun 2019

8 Jun 2019betacode — Catharine Roth
5 Feb 2013Revised — David Whitehead
5 Feb 2013Revised — David Whitehead
16 Sep 2008more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
13 Sep 2008Translated — Edward Whitehouse

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κατασπείρας (Adler number kappa 781), trans. Edward Whitehouse, 13 Sep 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/781

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