Φρυκτός
beacon
Translated by David Whitehead22 Nov 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Also1 [sc. attested is] parafruktwreuo/menos ["he who is sending improper beacon-signals"]. Those misbehaving when on guard and spreading beacons hostile to those who have put their trust in the guards, to the advantage of the opposing forces, are said to be making improper beacon-signals, as Lysias says: "the elder of these was caught in Sicily, by Lamachus, making improper beacon-signals to the enemy, and was plank-executed".2
Strictly speaking [the verb]fruktwrei=n means what is spread by fire-signals.3
Strictly speaking [the verb]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φρυκτός. καὶ Παραφρυκτωρευόμενος. οἱ κακουργοῦντες περὶ τὰς φυλακὰς καὶ φρυκτοὺς ἀνατείνοντες ἐναντίους τοῖς πεπιστευκόσι τὴν φυλακὴν ἐπὶ τῷ συμφέροντι τῶν ἀντικαθεζομένων παραφρυκτωρεύεσθαι λέγονται, ὥς φησι Λυσίας· τούτων εἷς ὁ πρεσβύτερος ἐν Σικελίᾳ παραφρυκτωρευόμενος τοῖς πολεμίοις, ληφθεὶς ὑπὸ Λαμάχου ἀπετυμπανίσθη. Φρυκτωρεῖν κυρίως τὸ διὰ πυρσῶν ἀνατεινόμενον σημαίνει.
Betacode
*frukto/s. kai\ *parafruktwreuo/menos. oi( kakourgou=ntes peri\ ta\s fulaka\s kai\ fruktou\s a)natei/nontes e)nanti/ous toi=s pepisteuko/si th\n fulakh\n e)pi\ tw=| sumfe/ronti tw=n a)ntikaqezome/nwn parafruktwreu/esqai le/gontai, w(/s fhsi *lusi/as: tou/twn ei(=s o( presbu/teros e)n *sikeli/a| parafruktwreuo/menos toi=s polemi/ois, lhfqei\s u(po\ *lama/xou a)petumpani/sqh. *fruktwrei=n kuri/ws to\ dia\ pursw=n a)nateino/menon shmai/nei.
Notes (3)
- cf. generally phi 755, phi 758, phi 759.
- 1There is no comment on the headword itself. ↩
- 2Lysias 13.65 in Loeb edition (web address 1) = 13.67 OCT. For this material see already pi 485. ↩
- 3A faulty version of Harpokration s.v.: "strictly speaking ph. is to convey something by fire-signals being spread". ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 30 Mar 2023
- betacode cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- tweaks — David Whitehead
- expanded n.2; more keywords — David Whitehead
- Corrected reference; added link — Elizabeth Vandiver
- added note — David Whitehead
- Translated — David Whitehead