Παραβαλλόμενον
bring thrown beside, being exposed to
Translated by Ronald Allen25 Sep 2008Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
"For, being exposed to the Thracians' snow, I was not going to indulge [sc. Asterius' entreaty] with rugs."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παραβαλλόμενον· οὐ γὰρ ἦν πρὸς τὴν Θρᾳκῶν χιόνα παραβαλλόμενον χαρίζεσθαι δάπιδας.
Betacode
*paraballo/menon: ou) ga\r h)=n pro\s th\n *qra|kw=n xio/na paraballo/menon xari/zesqai da/pidas.
Notes (1)
- The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is the present middle/passive participle, masculine accusative (and neuter nominative, vocative, and accusative) singular, of the verb
paraba/llw , I throw beside. See also pi 270, pi 271, pi 272, pi 273, pi 275, pi 276, pi 278, pi 279, pi 280, pi 281, pi 513, and generally LSJ s.v. - 1Synesius, Letters 61.6-7 (Hercher). In a letter to his friend Pylaemenes (advocate at Constantinople 402-413; PLRE s.v.) the neo-Platonist philosopher and Christian bishop Synesius (c. 370-c.413; PLRE s.v. Synesius 1, OCD(4) s.v., and sigma 1511) of Cyrene (Barrington Atlas map 97 grid C1; near modern-day Shahhat, Libya) explains his belated transfer of an Egyptian rug promised to the shorthand writer Asterius (exceptor at Constantinople 399-402; PLRE s.v. Asterius 2). ↩
References
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980
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Revision history7 revisions · last 20 Nov 2023
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- tweaked headword translation — Catharine Roth
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- typo, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ronald Allen