Προβαλλομένους
putting forward
Translated by David Whitehead17 Dec 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Meaning [them] holding out. As if putting [something] in the mind before the event. [So] Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word].1 And in the [speech] Against Aischines he calls the constitutional policy "put-forward and distrusting", meaning unstable. In the [speech] Against Meidias he says "and I put forward [the name of] this man as an offender in respect of the festival",3 meaning I employed the common and customary probole procedure against offenders in respect of the festival. In the Philippics he says "he neither knows nor cares [how] to protect himself or to watch an opponent",4 meaning to stretch out the hands as if to fight.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προβαλλομένους· ἀντὶ τοῦ ὑποτιθεμένους. οἷον πρὸ τῆς πράξεως εἰς τὸν νοῦν ἐμβαλλομένους. ὁ Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος. καὶ τῷ κατ' Αἰσχίνου, τὴν προαίρεσιν, φησί, τῆς πολιτείας προβεβλημένην καὶ ἄπιστον εἰπεῖν. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐλαφρῶς ἔχουσαν. ἐν δὲ τῷ κατὰ Μειδίου· καὶ προυβαλόμην, φησίν, ἀδικεῖν τοῦτον περὶ τὴν ἑορτήν. ἀντὶ τοῦ προβολῇ ἐχρησάμην τῇ συνήθει καὶ νομιζομένῃ κατὰ τῶν περὶ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἀδικούντων. ἐν δὲ τοῖς Φιλιππικοῖς φησι· προβάλλεσθαι δ' ἢ βλέπειν ἐναντίον οὔτε οἶδεν οὔτε ἐθέλοι. ἀντὶ τοῦ προτείνειν τὰς χεῖρας ὡς εἰς μάχην.
Betacode
*proballome/nous: a)nti\ tou= u(potiqeme/nous. oi(=on pro\ th=s pra/cews ei)s to\n nou=n e)mballome/nous. o( *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| u(pe\r *kthsifw=ntos. kai\ tw=| kat' *ai)sxi/nou, th\n proai/resin, fhsi/, th=s politei/as probeblhme/nhn kai\ a)/piston ei)pei=n. a)nti\ tou= e)lafrw=s e)/xousan. e)n de\ tw=| kata\ *meidi/ou: kai\ proubalo/mhn, fhsi/n, a)dikei=n tou=ton peri\ th\n e(orth/n. a)nti\ tou= probolh=| e)xrhsa/mhn th=| sunh/qei kai\ nomizome/nh| kata\ tw=n peri\ th\n e(orth\n a)dikou/ntwn. e)n de\ toi=s *filippikoi=s fhsi: proba/llesqai d' h)\ ble/pein e)nanti/on ou)/te oi)=den ou)/te e)qe/loi. a)nti\ tou= protei/nein ta\s xei=ras w(s ei)s ma/xhn.
Notes (4)
- From Harpokration s.v. The headword participle, extracted from Demosthenes (see n.1), is masculine accusative plural.
- 1Demosthenes 18.97 (web address 1). ↩
- 2Demosthenes 19.27 (web address 2). ↩
- 3Demosthenes 21.1 (web address 3). On probole see pi 2345. ↩
- 4Demosthenes 4.40 (web address 4). The optative
e)qe/loi is a mistake for the indicativee)qe/lei . ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 4 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- π2324Προβάλλεσθαιto bring forwardMeaning to proffer. Thucydides [writes]: "but [it is necessary to speak of] the Persian Wars and the rest of the things that you yourselves know, even if perpetually bringing them forward will be rather tiresome". And…
- π2345ΠροβολάςdefencesMeaning safeguards from cities or forts or certain other powers adopted with a view to being safe and strong. So Demosthenes [sc. uses the word]. In Aeschines the word "probole" arose from putting the name of someone…
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