Πίονται Πίωσι

they will drink [and] they would drink.

Translated by Catharine Roth27 Apr 2002Vetting: high5 revisions

4 notes · 24 words

Translation

The passives [are spelled] with omicron,1 but the actives with omega.2
As [in] "let us drink and let us eat."3 "[They] drinking some water."4

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πίονται, Πίωσι· τὰ παθητικὰ διὰ τοῦ ο μικροῦ, τὰ δὲ ἐνεργητικὰ διὰ τοῦ ω μεγάλου. οἷον πίωμεν καὶ φάγωμεν. πίνοντες τοῦ ὕδατος.

Betacode
*pi/ontai, *pi/wsi: ta\ paqhtika\ dia\ tou= o mikrou=, ta\ de\ e)nerghtika\ dia\ tou= w mega/lou. oi(=on pi/wmen kai\ fa/gwmen. pi/nontes tou= u(/datos. 

Notes (4)

  1. The addenda to the entry are marginal additions in ms. A.
    For forms of this verb, see also pi 1562, pi 1567, pi 1583, pi 1623, pi 1628, pi 1629.
  2. 1This middle form pi/ontai is used as the future of pi/nw. ↩
  3. 2The active form pi/wsi is aorist subjunctive of pi/nw. ↩
  4. 3cf. phi 12, and in reverse at I Corinthians 15.32 (where the apostle in turn quotes Isaiah 22.13). ↩
  5. 4This phrase (if a quotation, it is unidentifiable) illustrates the construction of pi/nw with the partitive genitive. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 12 Sep 2021
  1. cross-references — Catharine Roth
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. another note; another keyword; tweaks — David Whitehead
  5. added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“they will drink [and] they would drink.” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 27 April 2002. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/1631>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/pi/1631>.

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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