Περίστασιν
surrounding
Translated by David Whitehead14 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Dinarchus in [the] Etruscan [speech writes]: "after this, with Damon already at the way up,1 they make a surrounding; this led to my being begged to give evidence, etc.".2 Perhaps the expression means something like this: he himself and those present with him stood around [the speaker] in a circle and forced [him] to give evidence; so that it would have the same meaning as "they made [me] surrounded". But in some [copies] parastasis is written in place of peristasis.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περίστασιν· Δείναρχος Τυρρηνικῷ· μετὰ ταῦτα τοῦ Δάμωνος ἤδη περὶ ἀγωγὴν ὄντος, περίστασιν ποιήσουσιν· οὗ καὶ μαρτυρεῖν ἀξιοῦντος, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. μήποτε τοιοῦτόν ἐστι τὸ λεγόμενον, ἐν κύκλῳ περιέστη μὲν αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ συμπαρόντες αὐτῷ, καὶ μαρτυρεῖν ἠνάγκαζον· ἵνα τὴν αὐτὴν ἔννοιαν ἔχῃ τό, περίστατον μετεποίησαν. ἐνίοις δὲ παράστασιν ἀντὶ τοῦ περίστασιν γράφεται.
Betacode
*peri/stasin: *dei/narxos *turrhnikw=|: meta\ tau=ta tou= *da/mwnos h)/dh peri\ a)gwgh\n o)/ntos, peri/stasin poih/sousin: ou(= kai\ marturei=n a)ciou=ntos, kai\ ta\ e(ch=s. mh/pote toiou=to/n e)sti to\ lego/menon, e)n ku/klw| perie/sth me\n au)to\s kai\ oi( sumparo/ntes au)tw=|, kai\ marturei=n h)na/gkazon: i(/na th\n au)th\n e)/nnoian e)/xh| to/, peri/staton metepoi/hsan. e)ni/ois de\ para/stasin a)nti\ tou= peri/stasin gra/fetai.
Notes (2)
- From Harpokration s.v.; cf. Photius s.v. All three versions show textual variation from each other.
For this headword noun see already pi 1295. Here it is accusative case, presumably extracted from the quotation given. - 1Reading
a)nagwgh\n , with Harpok.; the Suda mss havea)gwgh\n . ↩ - 2Dinarchus fr. XII.5 Conomis. ↩
Linked from2 entries
- π1295Περίστασιςcircumstance, display, stature, station, tense situationPolybius [writes:] "but [Aemilia] made a practice of participating in the women's processions with a magnificent display." And elsewhere: "[he was] in terms of reputation and situation of life second to none amongst the…
- π1297ΠερίστατοιsurroundedIsocrates in the [speech] On the Antidosis [writes]: "[like] tricks which are useless yet become surrounded by the foolish". Meaning around which spectators gather in a circle.
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