Προσαναταθείς
strained tight besides, wound up
Translated by David Whitehead15 Aug 2013Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning one who has been] angered, roused. "Though briefly wound up, he agreed to do [it]".1 Meaning roused against [someone].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προσαναταθείς· ὀργισθείς, ἐπαρθείς. ὁ δὲ βραχέα προσαναταθεὶς κατένευσε ποιήσειν. ἀντὶ τοῦ κατεπαρθείς.
Betacode
*prosanataqei/s: o)rgisqei/s, e)parqei/s. o( de\ braxe/a prosanataqei\s kate/neuse poih/sein. a)nti\ tou= kateparqei/s.
Notes (1)
- The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is aorist passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of the doubly compound verb
prosanatei/nw (cf. pi 2595). - 1Polybius fr. 206 Büttner-Wobst. For the idiom (including 'briefly') see also 5.87.4 (web address 1). Büttner-Wobst notes (541) that Toup attributed this fragment to Polybius. ↩
References
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- π2595Προσανατεινόμενοςissuing threats[Meaning one who is] threatening. "Partly encouraging, partly issuing threats".
- π2597Προσανέχωνdevoting himself to, concentrating on[Meaning one who is] attending to, glued to. Polybius [writes]: "but he seemed to endure everything, devoting himself to the provinces of the Egyptians". And elsewhere: "Demetrius was concentrating on the arrival of the…
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Revision history4 revisions · last 19 Jul 2019
- expanded n.1, added bibliography, added link — Ronald Allen
- Revised — David Whitehead
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- supplemented translation, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead