Προσήκαντο

they admitted, they accepted

Translated by Catharine Roth11 Feb 2011Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 33 words

Translation

[Used] with an accusative.1 [Meaning] they received, they were willing. "So the majority accepted the embassy, but a certain few killed those who came."2
And elsewhere: "Moses for his part accepted the advice."3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Προσήκαντο· αἰτιατικῇ. κατεδέξαντο, ἠθέλησαν. οἱ πλεῖστοι μὲν οὖν προσήκαντο τὴν πρεσβείαν, ὀλίγοι δέ τινες διεχρήσαντο τοὺς ἐλθόντας. καὶ αὖθις· Μωϋσῆς μὲν προσήκατο τὴν συμβουλίαν.

Betacode
*prosh/kanto: ai)tiatikh=|. katede/canto, h)qe/lhsan. oi( plei=stoi me\n ou)=n prosh/kanto th\n presbei/an, o)li/goi de/ tines diexrh/santo tou\s e)lqo/ntas. kai\ au)=qis: *mwu+sh=s me\n prosh/kato th\n sumbouli/an. 

Notes (3)

  1. 1Aorist middle of prosi/hmi, third person plural; also in syntactical lexica. ↩
  2. 2Part of John of Antioch fr. 224 Roberto (not identified by Adler). ↩
  3. 3Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 3.73: web address 1. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 27 Nov 2021
  1. added a link — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. augmented tr and n.2; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“they admitted, they accepted.” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 11 February 2011. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/2676>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/pi/2676>.

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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