Μερίτης
partaker
Translated by Ronald Allen13 Mar 2009Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μερίτης· ὁ τινὸς πράγματος μεταλαγχάνων. Πολύβιος· ὁ δὲ φύλαξ εὐθὺς ἀνοίγει, ἐλπίζων καὶ πρὸς αὑτόν τι διατείνειν τὴν εὐαγρίαν διὰ τὸ μερίτην ἀεὶ γίνεσθαι τῶν εἰσφερομένων.
Betacode
*meri/ths: o( tino\s pra/gmatos metalagxa/nwn. *polu/bios: o( de\ fu/lac eu)qu\s a)noi/gei, e)lpi/zwn kai\ pro\s au(to/n ti diatei/nein th\n eu)agri/an dia\ to\ meri/thn a)ei\ gi/nesqai tw=n ei)sferome/nwn.
Notes (2)
- The headword, which in the quotation given appears in the accusative singular, is a masculine noun in the nominative singular; cf. mu 631.
- 1This glossing phrase includes the present active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb
metalagxa/nw , I have a share allotted me; see generally LSJ s.v. ↩ - 2An approximation of Polybius 8.29.6 (web address 1). It explains the deception by which the young hunter Philemenos, a native of Tarentum (
*ta/ras ; present-day Taranto in Puglia, southern Italy; Barrington Atlas, map 45 grid F4; OCD(4) s.v., tau 112, tau 113), brought a killed wild boar to the city wall at night, tempted the watchman to open the gates, and thus betrayed his city to Hannibal (OCD(4) s.v. and alpha 2452). The time-frame is 213-12 BCE, during the Second Punic War (218-201); cf. alpha 3976. ↩
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