Φαντάζομαι
I am exposed, I am made visible; I am imagined
Translated by Marcelo Boeri20 Sep 2003Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] I am the the victim of a sycophant. Thus [says] Aristophanes.1
"What he escaped from was greater than what had been imagined."2 The ancients used to say phantazesthai in application to phainein.3
"What he escaped from was greater than what had been imagined."2 The ancients used to say phantazesthai in application to phainein.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φαντάζομαι· συκοφαντοῦμαι. οὕτως Ἀριστοφάνης. πλέω τοῦ φαντασθέντος ἦν ὃ διέφυγεν. οἱ παλαιοὶ τὸ φαντάζεσθαι ἐπὶ τοῦ φαίνειν ἔλεγον.
Betacode
*fanta/zomai: sukofantou=mai. ou(/tws *)aristofa/nhs. ple/w tou= fantasqe/ntos h)=n o(\ die/fugen. oi( palaioi\ to\ fanta/zesqai e)pi\ tou= fai/nein e)/legon.
Notes (3)
- 1Aristophanes, Acharnians 823, web address 1 (where Valckenaer corrected to Megarian dialect:
fanta/ddomai ), with comment similar to that in the scholia there. For sykophants -- malicious informers/prosecutors -- see generally sigma 1330, sigma 1332. ↩ - 2Gregory of Nazianzus PG 36.192c (from Orations 32). ↩
- 3i.e. the headword verb is found in place of several meanings of the verb phainein (including the legal procedure of phasis, disclosure/exposure). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 8 Jan 2023
- added a link — Catharine Roth
- coding — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweak; another keyword — David Whitehead
- modified headword and translation; supplied notes; augmented keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri