Προσέχοιεν

they might apply

Translated by David Whitehead9 May 2010Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 30 words
To attend to with care. "[...] in order that the enemy might apply their mind to this."1
And elsewhere: "he was not altogether applying [sc. his mind] to his books".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Προσέχοιεν· ἐπιμελῶς τηρεῖν. ὅπως οἱ πολέμιοι ταύτῃ προσέχοιεν τὸν νοῦν. καὶ αὖθις· οὐδὲ πάνυ τι προσεῖχε τοῖς βιβλίοις.

Betacode
*prose/xoien: e)pimelw=s threi=n. o(/pws oi( pole/mioi tau/th| prose/xoien to\n nou=n. kai\ au)=qis: ou)de\ pa/nu ti prosei=xe toi=s bibli/ois.

Notes (2)

  1. For the idiom see generally LSJ s.v. prose/xw, 3 (with to\n nou=n) and 4 (without).
  2. 1A light abridgement -- the original has 'to this road' -- of Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.2 (web address 1). The quotation has the optative, like the headword, while the glossing phrase as transmitted uses a present infinitive. The editio princeps of Demetrius Chalcocondyles emended the gloss to threi=en; Aemilius Portus preferred throi=en. ↩
  3. 2Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 81 Zintzen (37 Asmus). ↩

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π2658Προσέχειαattentivenessπ2659ΠροσέχωI devote myself to, I land atπ2660Προσέχοιενthey might applyπ2661Πρὸς ζόφονtowards darknessπ2662Πρόσειyou approach
Revision history6 revisions · last 24 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. my typo — Catharine Roth
  3. tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. another note — David Whitehead
  6. expanded note, set status — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — David Whitehead

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