Πληθύουσιν
becoming full, growing
Translated by Catharine Roth30 Nov 2011Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πληθύουσιν· αὐξάνουσι, πλεονάζουσι. χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον πληθύουσι τοῖς Μινύαις εἰς ὕβριν ἐχώρουν βασιλείας τε ἀντεποιοῦντο. καί σ' ὁ πληθύων χρόνος γέρονθ' ὁμοῦ τίθησι καὶ τοῦ νοῦ κενόν.
Betacode
*plhqu/ousin: au)ca/nousi, pleona/zousi. xro/nw| de\ u(/steron plhqu/ousi toi=s *minu/ais ei)s u(/brin e)xw/roun basilei/as te a)ntepoiou=nto. kai/ s' o( plhqu/wn xro/nos ge/ronq' o(mou= ti/qhsi kai\ tou= nou= keno/n.
Notes (3)
- 1If the headword (from the verb
plhqu/w ) is extracted from the first quotation given, it, like the glosses, must be a present participle in the dative plural -- though see under next note. (Otherwise they could be finite verbs in the third person plural.) ↩ - 2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. Adler, on no discernible basis, attributed it to Aelian. Gaisford pointed out the resemblance of the passage to Herodotus 4.146.1, where the refugee Minyans (mu 1095, mu 1096) 'after some time behaved with insolence, demanding a share in [sc. Spartan] royal power etc.' (web address 1). Bernhardy proposed emending the participle from dative to nominative,
plhqu/ontes , but that would seem to make the Spartans the ones 'growing in insolence'. ↩ - 3Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 930-1 (web address 2); Theseus addressing Creon [Author, Myth]. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 5 Jul 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented n.2; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth