Ὤρυσσον
I was digging, they were digging
Translated by Catharine Roth8 Sep 2005Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
And the future perfect1 [is] w)ru/comai ["I will have dug"].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὤρυσσον· καὶ ὁ μετ' ὀλίγον μέλλων ὠρύξομαι.
Betacode
*)/wrusson: kai\ o( met' o)li/gon me/llwn w)ru/comai.
Notes (1)
- The unglossed primary headword is imperfect, probably first person singular (but possibly third person plural), of
o)ru/ssw (omicron 650, omega 211). It must be quoted from somewhere (perhaps Herodotus, who has 9 instances).
The future middle, first person singular, would beo)ru/comai with omicron; the future perfectw)ru/comai is found only here and (in a paradigm) in Gennadius Scholarius (15th c.). - 1Literally, the near future. This technical term occurs only here in the Suda but is common in grammars and lexica elsewhere. See generally A. Wouters, "The ancient Greek (and Latin) grammarians and the
met' o)li/gon me/llwn tense", in J. De Clerq & P. Desmet (eds.), Florilegium Historiographiae Linguisticae ... Maurice Leroy (Louvain 1994) 97-129. ↩
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Revision history8 revisions · last 23 Sep 2023
- cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; augmented notes — David Whitehead
- corrected my translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- fixed another typo — Ross Scaife ✝
- fixed a typo — Ross Scaife ✝
- augmented headword, note, keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth