Προϊέναι
to cast away
Translated by Ronald Allen13 Jun 2013Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to throw [away], to lose.1 "It is not right for a man to cast away any of his own [possessions]."2 For he did not say 'to manage' or 'to lend', but 'to cast away', the creditor being vexed at not being able to recover the money which he lent. So he is saying that one should not recklessly give away one's own money to others.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προϊέναι· ῥίψαι, ἀπολέσαι. ἄνδρα τῶν αὑτοῦ τι οὐ χρὴ προϊέναι. οὐδὲ γὰρ χειρίσασθαι ἔφη ἢ δανεῖσαι, ἀλλὰ προϊέναι, ἀσχάλλων ὁ δανειστὴς ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ κεκομίσθαι ἅπερ ἐδάνεισε χρήματα. φησὶν οὖν, ὅτι οὐ χρὴ ῥᾳδίως ἄλλοις προΐεσθαι τὰ ἑαυτοῦ χρήματα.
Betacode
*proi+e/nai: r(i/yai, a)pole/sai. a)/ndra tw=n au(tou= ti ou) xrh\ proi+e/nai. ou)de\ ga\r xeiri/sasqai e)/fh h)\ danei=sai, a)lla\ proi+e/nai, a)sxa/llwn o( daneisth\s e)pi\ tw=| mh\ kekomi/sqai a(/per e)da/neise xrh/mata. fhsi\n ou)=n, o(/ti ou) xrh\ r(a|di/ws a)/llois proi/+esqai ta\ e(autou= xrh/mata.
Notes (3)
- The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is the present active infinitive of the verb
proi/hmi , I send before, send away, dismiss, give away; see generally LSJ s.v. - 1The glossing verb forms are aorist active infinitives of
r(i/ptw (I cast, hurl, throw away) anda)po/llumi (I destroy utterly, kill, lay waste); see generally LSJ s.vv. ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Clouds 1214 (a complaint of the First Creditor: web address 1), though in the form of a question in the received text; see Dover, p. 72. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms M has
to/n fortw=n .] ↩ - 3From the scholia (= scholia vetera) to the above Aristophanic passage. [Adler notes that Bernhardy suggested
xari/sasqai , to give graciously, for the paradosisxeiri/sasqai ; ms A readstw=n fortw=| ; and ms V omits the last sentence in the passage.] ↩
References
K.J. Dover, ed., Aristophanes Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 15 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- adjustments — David Whitehead
- tweaked translation, upgraded link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ronald Allen