Προαλίσαντας

gathering in advance

Translated by Catharine Roth13 Apr 2013Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 27 words

Translation

[Meaning them] assembling in advance.1
Josephus [writes]: "[...] gathering in advance the courage [needed] for the coming misfortunes, to use it on those who would cause them."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Προαλίσαντας· προαθροίσαντας. Ἰώσηπος· τὸν ἐπὶ ταῖς μελλούσαις συμφοραῖς θυμὸν προαλίσαντας, ἐναφεῖναι τοῖς δράσουσιν αὐτάς.

Betacode
*proali/santas: proaqroi/santas. *)iw/shpos: to\n e)pi\ tai=s mellou/sais sumforai=s qumo\n proali/santas, e)nafei=nai toi=s dra/sousin au)ta/s.  

Notes (2)

  1. 1The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is aorist active participle of the rare compound verb proali/zw, masculine accusative plural. Photius (pi1175 Theodoridis) and Lexica Segueriana 348.5 have the same headword and gloss but in the nominative plural. ↩
  2. 2Josephus, Jewish War 3.261 (web address 1). ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 2 Nov 2021
  1. tweaked translation and link — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

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