Μέτεισιν
pursues, goes after
Translated by Robert Dyer19 Jun 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] acts in self-defense against, follows up. "Justice pursues the Athenians for their sacrilegious murders, and they were plunged in infertilities."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μέτεισιν· αἰτιατικῇ. ἀμύνεται, ἐπεξέρχεται. μέτεισι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀθέσμων φόνων ἡ δίκη, καὶ ἀφορίαις συνείχοντο.
Betacode
*me/teisin: ai)tiatikh=|. a)mu/netai, e)pece/rxetai. me/teisi tou\s *)aqhnai/ous u(pe\r tw=n a)qe/smwn fo/nwn h( di/kh, kai\ a)fori/ais sunei/xonto.
Notes (1)
- For this judicial use of
metie/nai see also mu 782. The glosses suggest that we have a metaphor from the cross-examination of a guilty person giving false evidence. In this case the prefixmeta- would have the same double sense as English "go after", i.e. following up testimony by a hostile examination of the testifier. - 1Aelian fr.76d D-F (73 Hercher). The change in tense from the present tense (virtually future from this verb) to the imperfect is not explained. The last phrase implies that Justice (probably here the personification, cf. delta 1093) was holding the Athenians in her grip by means of the failure of crops and perhaps human infertility. ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 20 May 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Robert Dyer