Νένακτο
had been crammed
Translated by Ioannis Doukas13 Jan 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] had been filled. Josephus [writes]: "[he] rushed in1 together with the enemies; and every house had been crammed with infantrymen, and the roofs were full of raging people."2
[Formed] out of the [verb]na/ssw , [future] na/cw , the one [attested] in Homer in the Odyssey.3 Out of this also [comes the phrase] 'the well-kneaded [nasto/s ] bread'.4
[Formed] out of the [verb]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νένακτο· ἐπεπλήρωτο. Ἰώσηπος· συνεκπίπτει δὲ τοῖς πολεμίοις εἴσω· καὶ πᾶσα οἰκία ὁπλιτῶν νένακτο, τὰ τέγη δ' ἦν τῶν μαινομένων κατάπλεα. ἐκ τοῦ νάσσω, νάξω, τοῦ καὶ παρ' Ὁμήρῳ ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ. ἐξ οὗ καὶ ὁ ναστὸς ἄρτος.
Betacode
*ne/nakto: e)peplh/rwto. *)iw/shpos: sunekpi/ptei de\ toi=s polemi/ois ei)/sw: kai\ pa=sa oi)ki/a o(plitw=n ne/nakto, ta\ te/gh d' h)=n tw=n mainome/nwn kata/plea. e)k tou= na/ssw, na/cw, tou= kai\ par' *(omh/rw| e)n *)odussei/a|. e)c ou(= kai\ o( nasto\s a)/rtos.
Notes (4)
- The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation which immediately follows, is third person singular, pluperfect middle indicative, of the verb
na/ssw . - 1Read
suneispi/ptei instead ofsunekpi/ptei . ↩ - 2Josephus, Jewish War 1.337 (web address 1). ↩
- 3Homer, Odyssey 21.122 (web address 2); see also Eustathius ad loc. ↩
- 4From Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 1142 (web address 3); see already under nu 44. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 23 Oct 2020
- tweaked translation and link — Catharine Roth
- coding — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added primary note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas