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Κατατρίψειν · to be about to consume (κ 833) · 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 κ833

κ829I jeer at, I sneer at
κ830I cripple you, I disable you, I wound you
κ831overrunning
κ832I run down, I overrun
κ833to be about to consume
κ834I put to flight, I rout
κ835merry-making, luxury, pleasure
κ836I delight in
κ837to wear out

Suda/Κ kappa/κ833

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Κατατρίψειν

to be about to consume

Translated by Catharine Roth13 Aug 2008Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 55 words

Translation

[Meaning] to be about to squander [on], to be about to prolong.¹ "For he decided not to leave the war in Etruria² unfinished and take trouble over the cities there, fearing that he would be about to consume all the time of his authority -- which was not long -- being occupied with lesser deeds."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κατατρίψειν· καταδαπανήσειν, χρονιεῖν. οὐ γὰρ ἐδόκει αὐτῷ τὸν ἐν Τυρρηνίᾳ πόλεμον ἀτελῆ καταλείποντι περὶ τῶν ἐκείνῃ πόλεων πραγματεύεσθαι, δεδοικότι μὴ κατατρίψειεν ἅπαντα τὸν τῆς ἀρχῆς χρόνον, οὐ πολὺν ὄντα, περὶ τὰς ἐλάττους ἀσχολούμενος πράξεις.

Betacode

*katatri/yein: katadapanh/sein, xroniei=n. ou) ga\r e)do/kei au)tw=| to\n e)n *turrhni/a| po/lemon a)telh= katalei/ponti peri\ tw=n e)kei/nh| po/lewn pragmateu/esqai, dedoiko/ti mh\ katatri/yeien a(/panta to\n th=s a)rxh=s xro/non, ou) polu\n o)/nta, peri\ ta\s e)la/ttous a)sxolou/menos pra/ceis.

Notes (2)

[1] The headword is future active infinitive of katatri/bw (literally "I rub down"), evidently quoted from somewhere (other than the quotation given here, which has the future optative); perhaps Cassius Dio 60.19.5.
2Ancient Etruria, also known as Tyrrhenia, occupies the central-western region of the Italian peninsula, north of Latium and south of Liguria; cf. tau 837, tau 1195, and Barrington Atlas map 42 grids B1-3). ↩
3Polybius fr. 171 Büttner-Wobst (context and individual unknown). Büttner-Wobst notes (536) that this fragment was attributed to Polybius by Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676). Schweighäuser, arguing that Polybius usually employs the particle mh/ after a verb of fearing only if that verb is in the optative or subjunctive mood, remained doubtful about the attribution (ibid.); indeed, in this fragment mh\ follows the perfect participle dedoiko/ti, without the particle a)/n, whose presence would represent an optative mood (Smyth, §§1845-1849, 411-412). Defending the attribution, however, Büttner-Wobst cites (op. cit., 536) two indisputably Polybian passages where the negative mh/ particle follows participles derived from verbs of fearing, concern, or worry, without an accompanying a)/n particle; cf. Polybius 4.71.6 (web address 1) and 5.20.3 (web address 2).

References

T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, (Cambridge, MA 1956)

External resources

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

Neighbouring entries

κ831Κατατρεχόντωνoverrunning κ832ΚατατρέχωI run down, I overrun κ833Κατατρίψεινto be about to consume κ834ΚατατροποῦμαιI put to flight, I rout κ835Κατατρυφήmerry-making, luxury, pleasure

Revision history5 revisions · last 31 Oct 2018

31 Oct 2018expanded n.3, added bibliography entry, added links — Ronald Allen
30 Oct 2018inserted new geographical n.2, added map reference, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
30 Oct 2018expanded n.2, added bibliography — Ronald Allen
6 Feb 2013Revised — David Whitehead
13 Aug 2008expanded notes; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
13 Aug 2008Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κατατρίψειν (Adler number kappa 833), trans. Catharine Roth, 13 Aug 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/833

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