Προσέσχεν
brought to land, put in at
Translated by William Hutton21 Aug 2013Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] ran aground.1
Sophocles [writes]: "what need brought you to land, my boy, what carried you here? What impulse? What very welcome wind?"2 And elsewhere: "on what mission did you put in at this land? Sailing whence?"3 Also used iskate/sxen ['came down to land']. The same Sophocles [writes]: "when I came down to land here from marine Chryse on a ship-borne mission."4
Sophocles [writes]: "what need brought you to land, my boy, what carried you here? What impulse? What very welcome wind?"2 And elsewhere: "on what mission did you put in at this land? Sailing whence?"3 Also used is
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προσέσχεν· ἐξώκειλε. Σοφοκλῆς· τίς σ', ὦ τέκνον, προσέσχε; τίς προσήγαγε χρεία; τίς ὁρμή; τίς ἀνέμων ὁ φίλτατος; καὶ αὖθις· τίνι στόλῳ προσέσχες τήνδε γῆν; πόθεν πλέων; λέγεται καὶ κατέσχεν. ὁ αὐτὸς Σοφοκλῆς· ἡνίκ' ἐκ τῆς ποντίας Χρύσης κατέσχον δεῦρο ναυβάτῃ στόλῳ.
Betacode
*prose/sxen: e)cw/keile. *sofoklh=s: ti/s s', w)= te/knon, prose/sxe; ti/s prosh/gage xrei/a; ti/s o(rmh/; ti/s a)ne/mwn o( fi/ltatos; kai\ au)=qis: ti/ni sto/lw| prose/sxes th/nde gh=n; po/qen ple/wn; le/getai kai\ kate/sxen. o( au)to\s *sofoklh=s: h(ni/k' e)k th=s ponti/as *xru/shs kate/sxon deu=ro nauba/th| sto/lw|.
Notes (4)
- 1The headword is perhaps, though not demonstrably, extracted from the first quotation given (on which see next note). For the gloss cf. the gloss at epsilon 1638. ↩
- 2Sophocles, Philoctetes 236-7. In their OCT of Sophocles Lloyd-Jones and Wilson read
kate/sxe here (see the third quotation in this entry). Pearson readsprose/sxe but labels it 'suspect', presumably because this verb is more often intransitive, as in the second quotation here. ↩ - 3Sophocles, Philoctetes 243-4. ↩
- 4Sophocles, Philoctetes 269-70. ↩
Linked from3 entries
- κ1002Κατέσχονthey held down[Meaning] they were brought to anchor. Polybios [writes]: "the Romans set off with three hundred ships and held down into Messana, whence they set off to sail again". Also attested is prose/sxon ["they held to"]. "They…
- π2650Προσέσχεput in [at][Meaning he/she/it] landed [at], approached. Aelian [writes]: "then on the next [day] [he] put in at Chios, and after disembarking they chanced upon the girl as she was being sold".
- π2659ΠροσέχωI devote myself to, I land at[Used] with a dative.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 25 Nov 2021
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton