Περιφώσαντες
having sealed (?)
Translated by David Whitehead8 Mar 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning they] having covered, having put a lid on. "Having collected a sufficiently large quantity of wild beasts they put them into fresh jars and, having sealed the jars, kept them ready for use".1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιφώσαντες· σκεπάσαντες, πωμάσαντες. πλῆθος δὲ θηρίων ἀθροίσαντες ἱκανὸν ἐς χύτρας καινὰς ἐνέβαλλον καὶ περιφώσαντες αὐτὰς εἶχον ἐν ἑτοίμῳ πρὸς τὴν χρείαν.
Betacode
*perifw/santes: skepa/santes, pwma/santes. plh=qos de\ qhri/wn a)qroi/santes i(kano\n e)s xu/tras kaina\s e)ne/ballon kai\ perifw/santes au)ta\s ei)=xon e)n e(toi/mw| pro\s th\n xrei/an.
Notes (1)
- The headword participle is presumably extracted from the quotation given, but in the form transmitted here,
perifw/santes , it is otherwise unattested. (Alternatives have been suggested, none of them very convincing.) - 1Quotation unidentifiable (though as Adler notes, Tiberius Hemsterhuys [1685-1766] drew attention to a possible connection with Cornelius Nepos, Hannibal '5.2' [= 10.4-5], on H.'s preparations for a sea-battle in 184 BCE). ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 30 Sep 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Greek typo — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead