Προτιμῶ
I honor before, I prefer
Translated by Catharine Roth8 Oct 2013Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Used] with a genitive. "[He] having enacted shamelessly, [that] if anyone has been previously been sentenced to imprisonment [...]"1
"And the Tarentines having honored nothing more than that [person/thing] ..."2
But [also used] with an accusative:3 "When God and men are examined, will you honor human [concerns] more than God[?]"4
"And the Tarentines having honored nothing more than that [person/thing] ..."2
But [also used] with an accusative:3 "When God and men are examined, will you honor human [concerns] more than God[?]"4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προτιμῶ· γενικῇ. γράψας ἀναιδῶς, εἴ τινι προτετίμηται δεσμοῦ. καὶ Ταραντῖνοι μὲν οὐδὲν ἐκείνου προτιμήσαντες. αἰτιατικῇ δέ· θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων ἐξεταζομένων, προτιμήσεις τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τοῦ θεοῦ.
Betacode
*protimw=: genikh=|. gra/yas a)naidw=s, ei)/ tini proteti/mhtai desmou=. kai\ *taranti=noi me\n ou)de\n e)kei/nou protimh/santes. ai)tiatikh=| de/: qeou= kai\ a)nqrw/pwn e)cetazome/nwn, protimh/seis ta\ tw=n a)nqrw/pwn tou= qeou=.
Notes (4)
- The unglossed headword (presumably generic/paradigmatic) is present indicative active, first person singular, of
protima/w , a verb which often takes both an accusative and a genitive: "honor A (acc.) in preference to B (gen.)," as illustrated in the third, and perhaps the second, of the quotations provided.
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss AFV (but added in the margin of A). - 1A misquotation of Demosthenes 24.207: the relevant impersonal perfect middle/passive (construed with a dative of reference and a genitive of the penalty) should be not
proteti/mhtai , from the headword verb, butprosteti/mhtai ('has been sentenced in addition'). ↩ - 2Cassius Dio fr. 2.5 Boissevain; cf. Lexica Segueriana De syntacticis 165.21, which also quotes this phrase as an illustration of the syntax of the headword and ascribes the quotation to Book 19 of Dio. ↩
- 3Adler compares the Lexicon Syntacticum of Codex Laurentianus 59.16. ↩
- 4Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as coming from Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 36 (PG 36.276.10). ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 6 Dec 2021
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes, tweaks and cosmetics, raised status — William Hutton
- Translated — Catharine Roth