Προσπεσόντων

had had an impact

Translated by David Whitehead28 Oct 2001Vetting: high7 revisions

1 note · 24 words

[Meaning things which] had been reported. Polybius [writes]: "when these things had had an impact on Taras and the Thurians, the masses were angry".¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Προσπεσόντων· ἀγγελθέντων. Πολύβιος· προσπεσόντων δὲ τούτων ἐς Τάραντα καὶ τοὺς Θουρίους, ἠγανάκτει τὰ πλήθη.

Betacode

*prospeso/ntwn: a)ggelqe/ntwn. *polu/bios: prospeso/ntwn de\ tou/twn e)s *ta/ranta kai\ tou\s *qouri/ous, h)gana/ktei ta\ plh/qh.

The headword (evidently extracted from the following passage) and the gloss are aorist participles, active and passive respectively, in the (masculine and) neuter genitive plural.
1Polybius 8.24.3 (web address 1), on Hannibal in 213/212 BCE. Taras (Tarentum, modern-day Taranto) is in southern Italy; cf. tau 112 and tau 113. Thurians were residents of Thurii (*qou/rioi, cf. theta 418 and theta 419), a city southwest across the Gulf of Taranto from Tarentum. ↩

Revision history7 revisions · last 1 Dec 2021

1 Dec 2021tweaked link — Catharine Roth
10 Jul 2018rearranged notes, expanded n.1, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
18 Oct 2013Revised — David Whitehead
28 Nov 2011more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
10 Sep 2004augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
9 Sep 2004augmented note — Catharine Roth
9 Sep 2004added link, set status — Catharine Roth
28 Oct 2001Translated — David Whitehead