Περιορᾶσθαι
to keep watch over
Translated by William Hutton6 Oct 2011Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to look out for, to observe, to consider, to think about. Thucydides: "and the Megarians [...] keeping watch over the war," he says. Also "Brasidas keeping watch over the battle."1
"And they stayed by the river keeping watch for what would happen."2 That is, awaiting the outcome of, waiting for.
"And they stayed by the river keeping watch for what would happen."2 That is, awaiting the outcome of, waiting for.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιορᾶσθαι· καραδοκεῖν, ἀποθεωρεῖν, περισκέπτεσθαι, φροντίζειν. Θουκυδίδης· καὶ τοὺς Μεγαρέας ... περιορωμένους τὸν πόλεμον, λέγει. καί, ὁ Βρασίδας τῆς μάχης περιορώμενος. οἱ δὲ πρὸς τῷ ποταμῷ κατέμειναν περιορώμενοι τὸ γενησόμενον. τουτέστι καραδοκοῦντες, προσδοκῶντες.
Betacode
*periora=sqai: karadokei=n, a)poqewrei=n, periske/ptesqai, fronti/zein. *qoukudi/dhs: kai\ tou\s *megare/as ... periorwme/nous to\n po/lemon, le/gei. kai/, o( *brasi/das th=s ma/xhs periorw/menos. oi( de\ pro\s tw=| potamw=| kate/meinan periorw/menoi to\ genhso/menon. toute/sti karadokou=ntes, prosdokw=ntes.
Notes (2)
- The headword is present middle infinitive of
periora/w , probably not extracted from any text but chosen as an unmarked lemma form, as is usual for Aelius Dionysius (see n. 1). The forms in the quotations that follow are all middle participles of the same verb. - 1= Aelius Dionysius pi38 and Photius pi724 Theodoridis, but here with some errors and omissions. The first quotation is an amalgamation of two quotations in the original (the fault line indicated by the ellipsis) occasioned by haplographic omission of one of the two instances of
periorwme/nous . The quotations combined here are Thucydides 4.73.1 ("and the Megarians keeping watch over which side would win"), and a quotation that does not actually occur in Thucydides but might, as Adler and Theodoridis suggest, be a loose version of 2.43.4 (Pericles in the Funeral Speech urges his fellow-citizens not to dwell on the dangers of war:mh\ periora=sqai tou\s polemikou\s kindu/nous ). The second is a (faulty) quotation of Thucydides 4.124.4; in the original Brasidas is keeping watch over Mende (th=s *me/ndhs rather than over the battle (th=s ma/xhs ). This error is not present in Aelius Dionysius or Photius. ↩ - 2An approximation of Cassius Dio 51.24.1. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 6 Aug 2021
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- my typo — David Whitehead
- expanions to n.1 — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton