Νεωτερίζειν
to attempt something new, to innovate, to violently cause
Translated by Ronald Allen18 Jun 2008Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Thucydides [writes]: "during the day the stifling heat was oppressive, but, with the abrupt change [sc. of temperature], autumnal and cold nights were bringing something new, illness."1
"Not even for the chance of renewing the situation was the barbarian prepared to bear the responsibility, as if he had fought a legal and public battle."2
"Not even for the chance of renewing the situation was the barbarian prepared to bear the responsibility, as if he had fought a legal and public battle."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νεωτερίζειν. Θουκυδίδης· τῆς ἡμέρας τὸ πνῖγος ἐλύπει, νύκτες δὲ μετοπωριναὶ καὶ ψυχραὶ τῇ μεταβολῇ ἀσθένειαν ἐνεωτέριζον. ὁ δὲ βάρβαρος οὐδὲ ἐπὶ τὴν νεωτερίζουσαν τὰ πράγματα τύχην ἔσχεν ἀνενεγκεῖν τὴν αἰτίαν, ὡς ἂν ἔννομόν τινα καὶ ὕπαιθρον ἀγωνισάμενος μάχην.
Betacode
*newteri/zein. *qoukudi/dhs: th=s h(me/ras to\ pni=gos e)lu/pei, nu/ktes de\ metopwrinai\ kai\ yuxrai\ th=| metabolh=| a)sqe/neian e)newte/rizon. o( de\ ba/rbaros ou)de\ e)pi\ th\n newteri/zousan ta\ pra/gmata tu/xhn e)/sxen a)nenegkei=n th\n ai)ti/an, w(s a)\n e)/nnomo/n tina kai\ u(/paiqron a)gwnisa/menos ma/xhn.
Notes (2)
- The unglossed headword is the present active infinitive of the verb
newteri/zw , I innovate; cf. LSJ s.v., nu 243 (and cf. nu 245). In the quotations given, it appears first in the imperfect indicative active, third person plural (= first person singular) form and secondly as the present active participle, feminine accusative singular.
For the headword, Adler cites the unpublished Ambrosian Lexicon (184) as a comparandum. - 1An approximation of Thucydides 7.87.1 (web address 1), describing harsh conditions among prisoners-or-war working the quarries of Syracuse. ↩
- 2The quotation is not securely identifiable, but, as Adler indicates, it was attributed to Eunapius by Wyttenbach (Boissonade & Wyttenbach, p. 537). It occurs as part of Eunapius fr. 19 FHG (4.22), and its subordinate clause also appears, approximately, at upsilon 175 (end). Blockley (pp. 36-7, p. 486) does not include it in his selection of Eunapian fragments. Suda ms F omitted this quotation too (so Adler). ↩
References
J.F. Boissonade and D.F. Wyttenbach, Eunapii Sardiani: Vitas Sophistarum et Fragmenta Historiarum, Amsterdam: P. den Hengst & Son, 1822
R.C. Blockley, The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus, vol. II, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983
R.C. Blockley, The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus, vol. II, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- μ796Μετόπωρονlate autumn[Meaning] the fall of the year, the season after late summer.
- ν242Νεώτεραnew things, revolution"This man they killed on the grounds that he was making a revolution against [the] Romans."
- ν243Νεωτερίζειinnovates, is revolutionary[Meaning he/she/it] does novel things.
- ν245Νεωτερισμόςrevolution[Meaning] insurrection.
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Revision history5 revisions · last 19 May 2016
- tweak — David Whitehead
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- typo — David Whitehead
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- modified keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen