Προὐργιαίτατον
most serviceable, very serviceable
Translated by Catharine Roth20 Feb 2011Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
["Most/very serviceable"] and prou)rgiai/teron ["more/rather serviceable"]: [sc. the first of these means] most/very necessary,1 most/very valuable.2
"To consider more serviceable than [sc. winning] the war against [the] Romans to arrange safety from them."3
"That which follows by human nature in extreme dangers, [of those] considering their own [affairs] more/rather serviceable, they withdrew."4
"To consider more serviceable than [sc. winning] the war against [the] Romans to arrange safety from them."3
"That which follows by human nature in extreme dangers, [of those] considering their own [affairs] more/rather serviceable, they withdrew."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προὐργιαίτατον καὶ Προὐργιαίτερον· ἀναγκαιότατον, προτιμότατον. θέσθαι προὐργιαίτερον τοῦ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους πολέμου τὴν ἐξ αὐτῶν παλαμήσασθαι σωτηρίαν. ὅπερ ἕπεται φύσει ἀνθρώπου ἐν τοῖς τελευταίοις κινδύνοις τὰ σφέτερα προὐργιαίτερα τιθεμένων, ἀνεχώρησαν.
Betacode
*prou)rgiai/taton kai\ *prou)rgiai/teron: a)nagkaio/taton, protimo/taton. qe/sqai prou)rgiai/teron tou= pro\s *(rwmai/ous pole/mou th\n e)c au)tw=n palamh/sasqai swthri/an. o(/per e(/petai fu/sei a)nqrw/pou e)n toi=s teleutai/ois kindu/nois ta\ sfe/tera prou)rgiai/tera tiqeme/nwn, a)nexw/rhsan.
Notes (4)
- 1cf. pi 2910, pi 2911 (comparative). ↩
- 2cf. -- again for the comparative
prou)rgiai/teron rather than this superlative -- Hesychius, scholion on Plato, Gorgias 458C, scholion on Thucydides 3.109.2, Lexica Segueriana, Photius pi1414 Theodoridis, s.v.prounourge/staton [sic] (noted by Wentzel). ↩ - 3Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus) unidentifiable with certainty. Adler notes Jonathan Toup's attribution of it, rash in her opinion, to Menander Protector; cf. pi 47. ↩
- 4Quotation (again thought to be transmitted via the Excerpts) unidentifiable. ↩
Linked from3 entries
- π47Παλαμωμένωνcontriving, managing[Meaning they who are] working with the hands. "To contrive their salvation from the Romans."
- π2253Πρεσβυγένειαseniority of birth[Meaning an] older generation. Also [sc. attested as] a comparative.
- π2391Πρὸ ἔργου ἐτίθετοregarded as important[Meaning he/she/it] regarded as of rather high value. "And at the same time he regarded it as important to leave [conditions] in the rear friendly both to himself and to the army." And elsewhere: "he kept saying that it…
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Revision history6 revisions · last 7 Dec 2021
- another cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- my typo — David Whitehead
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks — David Whitehead
- expansion of notes; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth