Περιβαλλομένους
appropriating, capturing, encompassing, surrounding, throwing around
Translated by Ronald Allen16 Feb 2011Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning them] apprehending.1
Xenophon [writes]: "the fit men he despatched -- some here, some there -- to plunder [sc. the countryside] and he ordered them, appropriating whatever anyone might encounter, to bring it to him."2
And Polybius [writes]: "but Attalus, encompassing a fuller explanation, reminded them of the virtue shown from the beginning by his ancestors."3 Meaning having gone through [it] in detail.
And elsewhere: "[he] having thrown round with chains."4
And Aelian [writes]: "surrounding his attendants, they lead the masses into the theatre."5
Xenophon [writes]: "the fit men he despatched -- some here, some there -- to plunder [sc. the countryside] and he ordered them, appropriating whatever anyone might encounter, to bring it to him."2
And Polybius [writes]: "but Attalus, encompassing a fuller explanation, reminded them of the virtue shown from the beginning by his ancestors."3 Meaning having gone through [it] in detail.
And elsewhere: "[he] having thrown round with chains."4
And Aelian [writes]: "surrounding his attendants, they lead the masses into the theatre."5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιβαλλομένους· προσλαμβανομένους. Ξενοφῶν· τοὺς ἐπιτηδείους ἄλλους ἄλλοσε ἀφῆκε καταθεῖν καὶ ἐκέλευε περιβαλλομένους, ὅπως τις ἐπιτυγχάνοι, ἐλαύνειν πρὸς αὐτόν. καὶ Πολύβιος· ὁ δὲ Ἄτταλος περιβαλλόμενος πλείω λόγον ὑπεμίμνησκεν αὐτοὺς τῆς ἀνέκαθεν τῶν προγόνων ἀρετῆς. ἀντὶ τοῦ διεξελθών. καὶ αὖθις· δεσμοῖς περιβαλών. καὶ Αἰλιανός· οἱ δὲ τοὺς ὑπηρέτας αὐτῷ περιβαλόντες εἰς τὸ θέατρον ἄγουσιν.
Betacode
*periballome/nous: proslambanome/nous. *cenofw=n: tou\s e)pithdei/ous a)/llous a)/llose a)fh=ke kataqei=n kai\ e)ke/leue periballome/nous, o(/pws tis e)pitugxa/noi, e)lau/nein pro\s au)to/n. kai\ *polu/bios: o( de\ *)/attalos periballo/menos plei/w lo/gon u(pemi/mnhsken au)tou\s th=s a)ne/kaqen tw=n progo/nwn a)reth=s. a)nti\ tou= diecelqw/n. kai\ au)=qis: desmoi=s peribalw/n. kai\ *ai)liano/s: oi( de\ tou\s u(phre/tas au)tw=| peribalo/ntes ei)s to\ qe/atron a)/gousin.
Notes (5)
- The headword is the present middle/passive participle, masculine accusative plural, of the verb
periba/llw , I throw about, around, over, appropriate, capture; I put on); cf. pi 1077, pi 1079, and see generally LSJ s.v. One might suppose it to be extracted from the first quotation given, but parallel entries in other lexica (see next note) have no quotations, and Theodoridis on Photius s.v. follows S.A. Naber in regarding this participle as extracted from Homer, Odyssey 22.148. - 1The headword is identically glossed in the Synagoge and Photius' Lexicon (pi643 Theodoridis); cf. Lexica Segueriana 337.20. Adler also cites Boysen's Lexicon Seguerianum. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms F omitted the remainder of the entry.] ↩
- 2An approximation -- the major discrepancy is that the participle is aorist
peribalome/nous ("having appropriated"), not the Suda's presentperiballome/nous -- of Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.17 (web address 1). It describes (perhaps apocryphally) hunting and pillaging forays into the Median frontier (Barrington Atlas map 3 grid E3) directed by the young Cyrus (I) the Great of Persia (Kurash, Kurush (Old Persian), Kyros (Greek); d. 530-529; kappa 2777, kappa 2778, and see generally OCD(4) s.v. Cyrus(1)). ↩ - 3Polybius 18.17.6 (web address 2), describing the speech by Attalus I (269-197, ruler of Pergamum 241-197) on his diplomatic mission to Thebes in spring 197; cf. alpha 4316 and see generally OCD(4) s.v. Attalus I. Against Paton's translation (their ancestors, pp. 120-1), Walbank (citing Livy 33.2: web address 3) takes this to indicate Attalus's ancestors, not those of his listeners (pp. 572). ↩
- 4See more fully at delta 1704, where Adler suggests Aelian as a possible source. [This fragment is lacking in ms A (so Adler).] ↩
- 5Aelian fr. 176 Hercher (179 Domingo-Forasté), more fully at sigma 1191. [Adler notes that mss AVM read
au)tw=n desmoi=s : surrounding them with chains.] ↩
References
W.R. Paton, trans., Polybius: The Histories, vol. V, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. II, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967
D. Domingo-Forasté, ed., Clavdii Aeliani: Epistvlae et Fragmenta, Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1994
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. II, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967
D. Domingo-Forasté, ed., Clavdii Aeliani: Epistvlae et Fragmenta, Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1994
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from5 entries
- π1077Περιβαλόμενοςhaving collected for himself, having encompassed[Meaning] having procured for himself. "Having collected for himself a great deal of booty he brought [it] in to the newly-founded garrison." "But Apollonius not only embraced the tomb of Leonidas the Spartan, amazed at…
- π1079ΠεριβάλλωI encompass, I involve, I throw round[Used] with an accusative.
- π1111Περιεβάλοντοthey procured for themselves[Meaning] they additionally acquired. "The men overrunning the land procured for themselves much booty." And elsewhere: "Apollonius not only embraced the tomb of Leonidas the Spartan, amazed at the man [...]."
- π1267Περιπτύσσεταιcircles round[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] throws himself round. "Then he circles round Theodosiopolis and joins up with the men under Philippicus."
- σ1191Στρεβλούμενοςbeing subjected to the rack, twisting, straining[Meaning someone] being fettered, being whipped. Aelian [sc. writes]: "and surrounding his attendants they summon the masses into the theatre, and that man they take aside and they subject to the rack; and when…
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- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1; another keyword — David Whitehead
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- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen