Περιστοιχίζεται
is staking out
Translated by David Whitehead14 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Demosthenes in [the] Philippics says: "as we sit making plans, he is staking [us] out".1 This a metaphor from hunting: for they place wooden uprights, which they call stoichoi or stochoi, where the beasts run out, and spread nets across them, so that if the beasts evade the hunters they fall into the nets. However, some of the copies have "he is staking out", others "he is roping off".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιστοιχίζεται· Δημοσθένης ἐν Φιλιππικοῖς· μέλλοντας ἡμᾶς, φησί, καὶ καθημένους περιστοιχίζεται. ἐκ μεταφορᾶς τῶν κυνηγετῶν· κατὰ γὰρ τὰς ἐκδρομὰς τῶν θηρίων ὀρθὰ ξύλα ἱστᾶσιν, ἃ καλοῦσι στοίχους ἢ στόχους, καταπεταννύντες αὐτῶν δίκτυα, ἵνα ἐὰν αὐτοὺς ἐκφύγῃ τὰ θηρία, εἰς τὰ δίκτυα ἐμπέσῃ. ἔνια μέντοι τῶν ἀντιγράφων περιστοιχίζεται ἔχει, ἄλλα δὲ περισχοινίζεται.
Betacode
*peristoixi/zetai: *dhmosqe/nhs e)n *filippikoi=s: me/llontas h(ma=s, fhsi/, kai\ kaqhme/nous peristoixi/zetai. e)k metafora=s tw=n kunhgetw=n: kata\ ga\r ta\s e)kdroma\s tw=n qhri/wn o)rqa\ cu/la i(sta=sin, a(\ kalou=si stoi/xous h)\ sto/xous, katapetannu/ntes au)tw=n di/ktua, i(/na e)a\n au)tou\s e)kfu/gh| ta\ qhri/a, ei)s ta\ di/ktua e)mpe/sh|. e)/nia me/ntoi tw=n a)ntigra/fwn peristoixi/zetai e)/xei, a)/lla de\ perisxoini/zetai.
Notes (2)
- From Harpokration s.v.
For the headword verb see also pi 1312. - 1Demosthenes 4.9 (web address 1), on Philip. ↩
- 2These alternatives are more similar in Greek than in English:
peristoixi/zetai andperisxoini/zetai . ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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