Πλατύνω

I broaden out, I open, I widen

Translated by David Whitehead14 Apr 2010Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 17 words
[Used] with an accusative. "Open your mouth."1 But [sc. also] with a dative: "May God enlarge Japheth".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πλατύνω· αἰτιατικῇ· πλάτυνον τὸ στόμα σου. δοτικῇ δέ· πλατύναι ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἰάφεθ.

Betacode
*platu/nw: ai)tiatikh=|: pla/tunon to\ sto/ma sou. dotikh=| de/: platu/nai o( qeo\s tw=| *)ia/feq.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Psalm 80.11 LXX. ↩
  2. 2Genesis 9.27 LXX. For Japheth, cf. theta 417, sigma 253, sigma 254. ↩

Neighbouring entries

π1711Πλατώνειος λόγοςPlatonic discourse, Platonic wordπ1712Πλατυγίζειsplashesπ1713ΠλατύνωI broaden out, I open, I widenπ1714Πλατύπιλοςbroad-feltedπ1715Πλαίσιονoblong, rectangle
Revision history6 revisions · last 16 Sep 2021
  1. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. x-refs — David Whitehead
  6. set status — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“I broaden out, I open, I widen.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 14 April 2010. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/1713>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/pi/1713>.

Translation by David Whitehead 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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