Παραβαλών
swinging
Translated by David Whitehead13 Aug 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning someone] letting down. Aristophanes [writes]: "just like a wrestler, swinging his molars." Just as, also, they call letting down an oar 'swinging' it.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παραβαλών· χαλάσας. Ἀριστοφάνης· ὥσπερ παλαιστὴς παραβαλὼν τοὺς γομφίους. ὥσπερ καὶ τὸ χαλάσαι κώπην λέγουσι παραβαλεῖν.
Betacode
*parabalw/n: xala/sas. *)aristofa/nhs: w(/sper palaisth\s parabalw\n tou\s gomfi/ous. w(/sper kai\ to\ xala/sai kw/phn le/gousi parabalei=n.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Peace 34 (describing the eating habits of a dung-beetle), with scholion. See web address 1.
For this headword participle see already (but in a different sense) pi 279.
LSJ s.v.paraba/llw , IV, notes the present passage but says nothing about the supposed parallel sense concerning oars.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from6 entries
- π274Παραβαλεῖνto have betrayed, to have given upMeaning to have given over. "He sees Melesia and desires her and sends fifteen thousand gold pieces toward persuading her -- and if more were needed, he said he would give [it]; but she did not accept the gift,…
- π276Παραβαλεῖςyou will apply[Meaning] you will place beside, you will liken, you will visit.
- π277Παραβαλλόμενονbring thrown beside, being exposed to"For, being exposed to the Thracians' snow, I was not going to indulge [sc. Asterius' entreaty] with rugs."
- π278Παραβαλλόμενοςbeing thrown beside, being compared to[Meaning] being assimilated to. "[He] initially being compared to the best of kings/emperors."
- π279Παραβαλώνhaving thrown beside, having brought alongside[Meaning] having set nearby, going together with. "Having brought his own horse alongside Parthamasiros' horse, there was no longer an urgency to drive on in haste." Also [sc. attested is] paraba/llw; [used] with an…
- π281Παραβάλοιτοmight compareMeaning [he/she/it] might [?]escort. Aeschines [in the speech] Against Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word].
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Revision history3 revisions · last 14 Aug 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded notes — David Whitehead
- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead