Ὀρθοί
upright, erect, acute, excited
Translated by Ronald Allen20 May 2010Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀρθοί· ἐκπεπληγμένοι. οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι μαθόντες ὅτι Ἀννίβας πολιορκεῖ τὰς δυνάμεις, ὀρθοὶ ταῖς διανοίαις καὶ περίφοβοι πάντες ἦσαν, ὡς καὶ πρὸς τὰ ὅλα διατεινούσης τῆς ἐνεστηκυίας κρίσεως.
Betacode
*)orqoi/: e)kpeplhgme/noi. oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi maqo/ntes o(/ti *)anni/bas poliorkei= ta\s duna/meis, o)rqoi\ tai=s dianoi/ais kai\ peri/foboi pa/ntes h)=san, w(s kai\ pro\s ta\ o(/la diateinou/shs th=s e)nesthkui/as kri/sews.
Notes (2)
- The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is an adjective in the masculine nominative (and vocative) plural; see generally LSJ s.v.
o)rqo/s, -h/, -o/n and cf. iota 238, omicron 568, omicron 569, omicron 570, omicron 571, and omicron 578. - 1The gloss is the perfect middle/passive participle, masculine nominative (and vocative) plural, of the verb
e)kplh/ssw (I expel, e.g. balanced judgment); see LSJ s.v. ↩ - 2An approximation of Polybius 9.5.4 (web address 1), regarding Hannibal's (OCD(4) s.v. and alpha 2452) siege of Capua (Barrington Atlas Map 44 Grid F3) during the Second Punic War (218-201 BCE); Walbank, pp. 118-121. [In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that ms F omitted the quotation, that ms A reads
dianoi/as , through concern, and that ms S readsperi\ forpro\s : stretching to the limit about everything.] ↩
References
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. II, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 6 Feb 2021
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmeticule, upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- typo, noticed by the translator — David Whitehead
- another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen