Περιεῖναι
to survive
Translated by Catharine Roth29 May 2004Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιεῖναι· περιγενέσθαι. ἰδὼν ὅτι οὐκ ἄλλως τὴν πόλιν ἢ λιμῷ περιεῖναι δύναιτο.
Betacode
*periei=nai: perigene/sqai. i)dw\n o(/ti ou)k a)/llws th\n po/lin h)\ limw=| periei=nai du/naito.
Notes (2)
- 1cf. pi 1130, pi 1133, pi 1145, pi 1147. ↩
- 2Perhaps rather, "Seeing that he would not be able to overcome the city otherwise than by famine" (interpreting
periei=nai asnika=n , cf. pi 1147). Either way, the quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) is unidentifiable. ↩
Linked from5 entries
- π1130Περιέσεσθαιto prevail[Meaning] to overcome. "For not otherwise [sc. were they likely, vel sim.] to prevail over a general who was both hasty and altogether unwarlike."
- π1133Περιεσόμεθαwe will survive[Meaning] we will prevail.
- π1145ΠερίειμιI survive[Meaning] I am alive, I am still safe. "And 'I myself,' he said, 'fought in Mysia and am now surviving;' and holding up his spear, he said, 'in this is my trust'."
- π1147Περιεῖναιto survive, to overcome[Meaning] to be in life, to live. "At that time it came about that Justin survived in this manner." Also meaning to conquer. "[...] especially that his brother Gaius would not endure to overcome him when he had become a…
- π1155Περιῆνwas prevailing[Meaning he/she/it] was conquering, was surviving, was existing.
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- Translated — Catharine Roth