Προσπορευομένων

while they were approaching

Translated by David Whitehead29 Oct 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

1 note · 30 words

Translation

[Meaning] while they were advancing as suppliants. "While the victims were approaching him, [Dorimachos] jeered at and ridiculed some of them, hurled recriminations at others, and intimidated others with abuse".1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Προσπορευομένων· προσερχομένων μεθ' ἱκετηρίας. προσπορευομένων δ' αὐτῷ τῶν ἠδικημένων, τοὺς μὲν διέσυρε χλευάζων, τῶν δὲ κατανίστατο, τοὺς δὲ ἐξέπληττε λοιδορῶν.

Betacode
*prosporeuome/nwn: proserxome/nwn meq' i(kethri/as. prosporeuome/nwn d' au)tw=| tw=n h)dikhme/nwn, tou\s me\n die/sure xleua/zwn, tw=n de\ katani/stato, tou\s de\ e)ce/plhtte loidorw=n. 

Notes (1)

  1. 1Polybius 4.3.13 (web address 1), on the lead-up to the "Social War" of 220-217 BCE. The headword (extracted from the passage) and the gloss are present participles in the genitive plural. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 1 Dec 2021
  1. tweaked link — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
  5. added link, augmented note, set status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“while they were approaching.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 29 October 2001. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/2792>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/pi/2792>.

Translation by David Whitehead 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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