Νεαλής
fresh
Translated by David Whitehead10 Aug 2009Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Properly [sc. this means] a fish recently caught. But it is also a term used of [one] recently salted.1
Also someone recently captured.2
Appian [writes]: "[...] to see the mass of the people from the wall and always to send out other, fresh [troops] to help those in trouble; the Celts, weary [and] enmeshed in toils, began to flee in disarray".3
And Polybius [writes]: "the enemy being unharmed and fresh".4
Also someone recently captured.2
Appian [writes]: "[...] to see the mass of the people from the wall and always to send out other, fresh [troops] to help those in trouble; the Celts, weary [and] enmeshed in toils, began to flee in disarray".3
And Polybius [writes]: "the enemy being unharmed and fresh".4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νεαλής· κυρίως ὁ νεωστὶ ἑαλωκὼς ἰχθύς. λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὁ νεωστὶ ἁλισθείς. καὶ ὁ νεωστὶ ἁλούς. Ἀππιανός· τὸν δὲ δῆμον ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχους ὁρᾶν καὶ τοῖς πονουμένοις ἑτέρους νεαλεῖς ἐπιπέμπειν ἀεί· οἱ δὲ Κελτοὶ κεκμηκότες ἀκμῆσι συμπλεκόμενοι ἔφευγον ἀτάκτως. καὶ Πολύβιος· τοὺς πολεμίους ἀκεραίους ὄντας καὶ νεαλεῖς.
Betacode
*nealh/s: kuri/ws o( newsti\ e(alwkw\s i)xqu/s. le/getai de\ kai\ o( newsti\ a(lisqei/s. kai\ o( newsti\ a(lou/s. *)appiano/s: to\n de\ dh=mon a)po\ tou= tei/xous o(ra=n kai\ toi=s ponoume/nois e(te/rous nealei=s e)pipe/mpein a)ei/: oi( de\ *keltoi\ kekmhko/tes a)kmh=si sumpleko/menoi e)/feugon a)ta/ktws. kai\ *polu/bios: tou\s polemi/ous a)kerai/ous o)/ntas kai\ nealei=s.
Notes (4)
- On the two related senses of
nealh/s presented and illustrated here (based on alternative etymologies), see generally LSJ s.v. (web address 1). - 1Same material in Photius (mu67 Theodoridis) and other lexica, and cf. the scholia to Plato, Politicus 265B. Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 25.61, writes: "a man newly captured used to be called this, by a metaphor from fish". ↩
- 2Likewise Hesychius nu174. ↩
- 3Appian, Celtica fr. 9. ↩
- 4Polybius fr. 62 Büttner-Wobst (p. 523) (contextless). ↩
References
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Neighbouring entries
Revision history7 revisions · last 19 Oct 2020
- augmented n.4, added bibliography — Ronald Allen
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- added a link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- reworked n.1 — David Whitehead
- expanded notes; another keyword — David Whitehead
- keyword, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead