Φιτῦσαι
to sow, to plant
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Translation
[Meaning] to beget. [He] applies it to the father, but to a mother not here; instead, gennh=sai ["to beget"] [sc. is said also of a mother]. And fitu/ontos ["of a sower"] similarly [is said] of the begetter.1 But also the offspring is called fi/tuma . Eupolis in Autolycus [writes]: "but you brought a fresh offspring of the cattle."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φιτῦσαι· γεννῆσαι. ἐπὶ τοῦ πατρὸς τίθησιν, ἐπὶ δὲ μητρὸς οὐκέτι, ἀλλὰ γεννῆσαι. καὶ φιτύοντος ὁμοίως τοῦ γεννῶντος. λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὸ γέννημα φίτυμα. Εὔπολις Αὐτολύκῳ· ἀτὰρ ἤγαγες καινὸν φίτυμα τῶν βοῶν.
Betacode
*fitu=sai: gennh=sai. e)pi\ tou= patro\s ti/qhsin, e)pi\ de\ mhtro\s ou)ke/ti, a)lla\ gennh=sai. kai\ fitu/ontos o(moi/ws tou= gennw=ntos. le/getai de\ kai\ to\ ge/nnhma fi/tuma. *eu)/polis *au)tolu/kw|: a)ta\r h)/gages kaino\n fi/tuma tw=n bow=n.
Notes (2)
- The headword is the aorist active infinitive of
fitu/w . If it is quoted from somewhere, the extant possibilities -- outside lexica and scholia (references at Photius phi214 Theodoridis) -- are two: (?)Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 233, and Plato, Laws 879D. The fact that the first part of this entry also appears in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon might seem to tip the balance of probability in favour of the Laws passage; however, this material as a whole actually occurs in the scholia to Plato, Critias 116C, where the infinitive does not occur but the phrasee)fi/tusan kai\ e)ge/nnhsan does.
See also the scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 1164; cf. phi 473. - 1This participle is doubtless extracted (as Theodoridis asserts) from Plato, Republic 461A. ↩
- 2Eupolis fr. 49 Kock (56 K.-A.). ↩
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- Revised — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Catharine Roth