Νωθέστερος

more sluggish, rather sluggish

Translated by Elizabeth Vandiver23 Oct 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

3 words

Translation

[Meaning] more/rather slow.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νωθέστερος· βραδύτερος.

Betacode
*nwqe/steros: bradu/teros. 

Notes

  1. The headword is comparative of the adjective nwqh/s (nu 535, and cf. also nu 534, nu 536, nu 537), masculine nominative singular.
    Perhaps generated by Plato, Apology 30E (web address 1), which uses the dative singular in the famous "gadfly" comparison: Socrates says that the city of Athens, like a large and noble horse, has grown sluggish because of its size and needs to be roused. [Burnet ad loc. gives reasons for preferring the reading of ms. B, nwqeste/rw|, to that of ms. T, nwqrote/rw|.] Alternatively, note e.g. the masc. nom. sing. itself in (e.g.) (?)Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 62.

References


Burnet, John, ed. Plato's Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

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Revision history5 revisions · last 28 Nov 2020
  1. tweaked link — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
  5. cosmetics, keyword, status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — Elizabeth Vandiver

Cite this entry

“more sluggish, rather sluggish.” Suda On Line. Tr. Elizabeth Vandiver. 23 October 2005. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/nu/533>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/nu/533>.

Translation by Elizabeth Vandiver for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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