Περιεργάζεσθαι

to take excessive trouble about [something], to be meddlesome

Translated by Catharine Roth24 Apr 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 22 words

[Meaning] to prevail.¹
"Being meddlesome about the houses, in which they used to come together and assemble, [he] had met with them."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Περιεργάζεσθαι· περιγενήσεσθαι. ὁ δὲ περιεργασάμενος τοὺς οἴκους, ἐν οἷς συντρέχοντες ἐκκλησιάζουσι, τούτοις συνέσχηκεν.

Betacode

*perierga/zesqai: perigenh/sesqai. o( de\ periergasa/menos tou\s oi)/kous, e)n oi(=s suntre/xontes e)kklhsia/zousi, tou/tois sune/sxhken.

1The headword is present infinitive of perierga/zomai. Gaisford showed that this glossing comes from a misreading of a source: in Photius' Lexicon [now pi674 and pi676 Theodoridis] this perigenh/sesqai glosses perie/sesqai (as at pi 1130) while the gloss for perierga/zesqai is polupragmonei=n. ↩
2A dubious fragment of Damascius, Life of Isidore: fr. 394 Zintzen (298 Asmus). ↩

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