Νόσον ἔχειν
to have a disease
Translated by Ronald Allen20 Oct 2009Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νόσον ἔχειν· ἀντὶ τοῦ φαῦλον ἔθος ἔχειν. Εὐριπίδης Ἀντιόπῃ. Νόσος λεγόμενον ἐγκατασκῆψαι· πρὸς τὸ σημαινόμενον ἡ σύνταξις, πρᾶγμα δηλονότι. παρὰ Θουκυδίδῃ.
Betacode
*no/son e)/xein: a)nti\ tou= fau=lon e)/qos e)/xein. *eu)ripi/dhs *)antio/ph|. *no/sos lego/menon e)gkataskh=yai: pro\s to\ shmaino/menon h( su/ntacis, pra=gma dhlono/ti. para\ *qoukudi/dh|.
Notes (3)
- In the headword phrase, the substantive is a feminine noun in the accusative singular; see LSJ s.v.
no/sos, -ou, h( . The infinitive is the present active form from the verbe)/xw , I have or hold; see generally LSJ s.v. The headword phrase is extracted from Euripides' lost tragedy Antiope: see n. 1 below. - 1Euripides fr. 226 Nauck (and Kannicht). Thus far the passage agrees closely with the entry for the headword phrase in Photius' Lexicon (nu259 Theodoridis) and is identical to Lexica Segueriana 109.17; cf. Bekker 109.17-8. ↩
- 2That is, the feminine noun is modified by a neuter participle, because a disease is a thing. See the comment appended to nu 493. ↩
- 3Thucydides 2.47.3 (web address 1), with scholion. From his celebrated account of the Athenian "plague" of 430 BCE; see OCD(4) s.v. plague, and Adcock, CAH V, pp. 200-2). For Lemnos, an island in the northern Aegean Sea (Barrington Atlas map 56 grid A2), see lambda 452. The exact identity of the pathogen responsible for the pestilence is uncertain, but recent DNA evidence implicates typhoid fever (Papagrigorakis, et al., pp. 206-14). ↩
References
I. Bekker, ed., Anecdota Graeca, vol. I, Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1965
F.E. Adcock, 'The Archidamian War, 431-421 B.C.', pp. 193-253, in J.B. Bury, S.A. Cook, and F.E. Adcock, eds., The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. V, Athens, 478-401 B.C., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979
M. Papagrigorakis, et al., 'DNA examination of ancient dental pulp incriminates typhoid fever as a probable cause of the Plague of Athens,' International Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 206-14, 2006
F.E. Adcock, 'The Archidamian War, 431-421 B.C.', pp. 193-253, in J.B. Bury, S.A. Cook, and F.E. Adcock, eds., The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. V, Athens, 478-401 B.C., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979
M. Papagrigorakis, et al., 'DNA examination of ancient dental pulp incriminates typhoid fever as a probable cause of the Plague of Athens,' International Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 206-14, 2006
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history7 revisions · last 23 Nov 2020
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- added new note 2, upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- modifications to tr; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen