Μεταποιεῖσθαι
to make a claim to
Translated by William Hutton30 Jun 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Meaning to make [something/someone] one's own.1 Plato in Politics [writes]: "at least making a claim to royal skill."2 [Meaning] laying a claim. Thucydides in the plague situation [writes]: "[...] and especially those making a claim to virtue."3 He means those laying a claim.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μεταποιεῖσθαι· ἀντὶ τοῦ ποιεῖσθαι. Πλάτων Πολιτικοῖς· ἥκιστα βασιλικῆς μεταποιουμένους τέχνης. ἀντιποιουμένους. Θουκυδίδης ἐν τῇ λοιμικῇ καταστάσει· καὶ μάλισθ' οἱ ἀρετῆς μεταποιούμενοι. σημαίνει ἀντιποιούμενοι.
Betacode
*metapoiei=sqai: a)nti\ tou= poiei=sqai. *pla/twn *politikoi=s: h(/kista basilikh=s metapoioume/nous te/xnhs. a)ntipoioume/nous. *qoukudi/dhs e)n th=| loimikh=| katasta/sei: kai\ ma/lisq' oi( a)reth=s metapoiou/menoi. shmai/nei a)ntipoiou/menoi.
Notes (3)
- Likewise in Photius, Lexicon mu329 Theodoridis (from Aelius Dionysius mu15).
For this verb see also mu 728. When used as in the present entry, it regularly governs the genitive case. - 1Same gloss in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and elsewhere. and cf. Hesychius mu1044. ↩
- 2That is, in the work more commonly known as the Politicus: 289E (web address 1). ↩
- 3Thucydides 2.51.5 (web address 2). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 22 Dec 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- another note; tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaked aspects of tr; more notes; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added links and keyword, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton