Προστατῶν
imminent
Translated by Catharine Roth4 Sep 2013Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] coming upon. "But imminent time always treated me as about to die. Now, however, since on this day I have been relieved from fear ..."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προστατῶν· ὁ ἐπιγινόμενος. ἀλλ' ὁ προστατῶν χρόνος διῆγέ μ' αἰὲν ὡς θανουμένην. νῦν δ' ἡμέρᾳ γὰρ τῇδ' ἀπηλλάγην φόβου.
Betacode
*prostatw=n: o( e)pigino/menos. a)ll' o( prostatw=n xro/nos dih=ge/ m' ai)e\n w(s qanoume/nhn. nu=n d' h(me/ra| ga\r th=|d' a)phlla/ghn fo/bou.
Notes (1)
- The headword (extracted from the quotation given, on which see next note) is present participle, masculine nominative singular, of
prostate/w (literally, 'stand in front of').
See pi 2806 for another form of the same verb, and for related nouns, pi 2807, pi 2808, pi, 2809. - 1Sophocles, Electra 781-3 (web address 1), with scholion. The scholiast clearly takes the verb in this context as an instance of sense III in LSJ s.v., but LSJ notes that sense I ('lording over') might actually have been intended. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 20 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note; more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaked headword and tr., augmented note, set status — William Hutton
- Translated — Catharine Roth