Φυγαδεία
exile
Translated by William Hutton12 Feb 2014Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] flight, banishment.
"Since there were two obvious paths to destruction, they exchanged an everlasting exile for these things. Thus the widespread [saying] is true, that an end of evil [is] a greater evil."1
Also [sc. attested is the phrase], "an exile from one's own people".2 "[The] queen/empress showed where she had been an exile a little further off."3 Meaning [where she had been] banished.4
"Since there were two obvious paths to destruction, they exchanged an everlasting exile for these things. Thus the widespread [saying] is true, that an end of evil [is] a greater evil."1
Also [sc. attested is the phrase], "an exile from one's own people".2 "[The] queen/empress showed where she had been an exile a little further off."3 Meaning [where she had been] banished.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φυγαδεία· φυγή, ἐξορία. δυεῖν προδήλων ὀλέθρων ὑπαρχόντων, ἠλλάξαντο φυγαδείαν ἀντὶ τούτων ἀΐδιον. οὕτως ἀληθές ἐστι τὸ περιφερόμενον, ὅτι παῦσις τοῦ κακοῦ μεῖζον κακόν. καί, φυγὰς τοῦ ἰδίου ἔθνους. οὗ φυγὰς ὀλίγα πόρρωθεν ἐγεγόνει, ἀπέδειξε βασίλισσα. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐξόριστος.
Betacode
*fugadei/a: fugh/, e)cori/a. duei=n prodh/lwn o)le/qrwn u(parxo/ntwn, h)lla/canto fugadei/an a)nti\ tou/twn a)i/+dion. ou(/tws a)lhqe/s e)sti to\ perifero/menon, o(/ti pau=sis tou= kakou= mei=zon kako/n. kai/, fuga\s tou= i)di/ou e)/qnous. ou(= fuga\s o)li/ga po/rrwqen e)gego/nei, a)pe/deice basi/lissa. a)nti\ tou= e)co/ristos.
Notes (4)
- For the lemma Adler cites Lexicon Ambrosianum 557.
- 1Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. It includes the accusative singular form of the headword. For the 'saying' invoked cf. pi 806. ↩
- 2A phrase (unattested elsewhere) involving a noun,
fuga/s , related to the headword. This noun -- but not the whole phrase -- appears in the quotation that follows. ↩ - 3Again, the quotation (again, in Adler's view, transmitted via the Excerpta) is unidentifiable. ↩
- 4Adler compares Hesychius (epsilon944) for this gloss, but the similarity is not particularly compelling. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 31 May 2016
- coding — David Whitehead
- tweaked translation — William Hutton
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expansions to notes; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- another keyword, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton