Νισσόμενος
going
Translated by Nick Nicholas25 Nov 2009Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning one who is] turning back.1 Also [sc. attested is] ni/sonto ["they went"], [meaning] they turned back.2
They say [it is formed] out of the [verb]nei+/w , [meaning] I go, whose future is nei+/sw ; for otherwise the diphthong ei3 is used freely, as if it derives from ne/w ;4 and [it is] also likely that it is redundant in form as a result of the two sigmas.5
They say [it is formed] out of the [verb]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νισσόμενος· ἀναστρεφόμενος. καὶ Νίσοντο, ἀνεστρέφοντο. ἐκ τοῦ νεΐω φασι, τὸ πορεύομαι· οὗ ὁ μέλλων νεΐσω· ἄλλως γὰρ ὡς ἐκ τοῦ νέω ἡ ει δίφθογγος ἐν τούτοις παρρησιάζεται· εἰκὸς δὲ καὶ ἐκ τῶν δύο σς πλεονάζεσθαι.
Betacode
*nisso/menos: a)nastrefo/menos. kai\ *ni/sonto, a)nestre/fonto. e)k tou= nei/+w fasi, to\ poreu/omai: ou(= o( me/llwn nei/+sw: a)/llws ga\r w(s e)k tou= ne/w h( ei di/fqoggos e)n tou/tois parrhsia/zetai: ei)ko\s de\ kai\ e)k tw=n du/o ss1 pleona/zesqai.
Notes (5)
- 1The headword participle must be quoted from somewhere, perhaps Greek Anthology 9.702, attributed to Simonides: "descending (
nisso/menos ) from Olympus to Earth". ↩ - 2Homer, Iliad 12.119, 18.566. ↩
- 3Adler initially printed 'the reading', but see n. 5 below. ↩
- 4The etymologies derive the verb in question,
ni/ssomai , fromne/w ; they probably meanne/omai "go" (root *nes-/nos-, reduplicated zero-grade *ni-ns-).*nei/w is offered as a hypothetical variant ofne/w in the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 4.701, and in Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey 9.58. ↩ - 5The infinitive at the end of this last clause, taken from the margin of ms M, was initially printed as
o)noma/zesqai ["is named"] by Adler, with no note of any textual variants or problems. However, in her consolidated addenda and corrigenda she adopted two changes to this material (cf. n. 3 above), including thepleona/zesqai translated here. ↩
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Revision history6 revisions · last 18 Nov 2020
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- tweaked notes — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; augmented notes — David Whitehead
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- expanded note, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Nick Nicholas