Πλειστηριάσας
having raised the price, having made dear
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Translation
[Meaning somone] having sold [something] for more than he bought it for.1
"He was doing this and pretending to be sorry for raising their price".2
Also [sc. attested in the plural]pleisthria/santes , meaning [they] having exaggerated the value of the goods on sale. So Lysias and Plato Comicus.3
Attic writers say, like us,pleistobolei=n ["to throw highest at dice"].4
"He was doing this and pretending to be sorry for raising their price".2
Also [sc. attested in the plural]
Attic writers say, like us,
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πλειστηριάσας· πλείονος πωλήσας, οὗ ὠνήσατο. ἐποίει δὲ τοῦτο καὶ μετάμελος προσεποιεῖτο γεγονέναι, πλειστηριάζων αὐτούς. καὶ Πλειστηριάσαντες, ἀντὶ τοῦ ὑπερβαλόντες ἐν τῇ τιμῇ τῶν πιπρασκομένων. οὕτως Λυσίας καὶ Πλάτων ὁ κωμικός. Πλειστοβολεῖν λέγουσιν, ὡς ἡμεῖς, Ἀττικοί.
Betacode
*pleisthria/sas: plei/onos pwlh/sas, ou(= w)nh/sato. e)poi/ei de\ tou=to kai\ meta/melos prosepoiei=to gegone/nai, pleisthria/zwn au)tou/s. kai\ *pleisthria/santes, a)nti\ tou= u(perbalo/ntes e)n th=| timh=| tw=n pipraskome/nwn. ou(/tws *lusi/as kai\ *pla/twn o( kwmiko/s. *pleistobolei=n le/gousin, w(s h(mei=s, *)attikoi/.
Notes (4)
- 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius pi933 Theodoridis. The headword is aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of
pleisthria/zw . It must be extracted from somewhere (not any of the quotations given here, which have other forms), but is not independently attested. ↩ - 2Quotation -- with the present participle of this verb -- unidentifiable. (Adler suggested Aelian. She also noted Bernhardy's suggestion that
e)poi/ei 'was doing' ought to bee)pw/lei 'was selling'.) ↩ - 3Abridged from Harpokration s.v. Lysias = fr. 15 Sauppe (and Carey OCT); Plato = fr. 18 Kock (and K.-A.). ↩
- 4So too in Photius pi935 Theodoridis (on this unrelated verb). ↩
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