Προσέπαισε
made fun of, made jest of
Translated by William Hutton19 Aug 2013Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προσέπαισε· προσέπαιξε. Πλάτων τῷ ς ἀντὶ τοῦ ξ κέχρηται.
Betacode
*prose/paise: prose/paice. *pla/twn tw=| s1 a)nti\ tou= c ke/xrhtai.
Notes
- = Photius, Lexicon pi1317 Theodoridis, derived ultimately from Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon s.v.
At issue are two different ways to spell the aorist indicative active, third person singular, of the verbprospai/zw . The headword more traditionally uses the letter sigma as a tense-marker, while the "gloss" uses the later-Greek alternative with the letter xi, by a common assimilation to the aorist endings of verbs with velar stems. (There is no difference in meaning.)
Plato actually uses neither form as such in his preserved writings, although there are two aorist active indicative forms of the verb, both with 's':prosepaisa/thn (second person dual) in Euthydemus 283B, andprosepai/samen (first person plural) in Phaedrus 265C.
cf. pi 892, pi 893.
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- Revised — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- typo — William Hutton
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cross-references — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton