Προὔχοντο
they were holding out
Translated by Catharine Roth14 Oct 2013Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] they put forward.1 Thus also Thucydides used [the word] in [book] 1 of Histories, saying: "if we do not revoke the Megarians' decree, which they are especially holding out [...]." Meaning they are putting forward, they are proposing.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προὔχοντο· προέβαλον. οὕτως καὶ Θουκυδίδης ἐχρήσατο ἐν αʹ ἱστοριῶν, λέγων· εἰ τὸ Μεγαρέων ψήφισμα μὴ καθέλοιμεν, ὅπερ μάλιστα προὔχονται. ἀντὶ τοῦ προβάλλουσι, προτείνουσι.
Betacode
*prou)/xonto: proe/balon. ou(/tws kai\ *qoukudi/dhs e)xrh/sato e)n a# i(storiw=n, le/gwn: ei) to\ *megare/wn yh/fisma mh\ kaqe/loimen, o(/per ma/lista prou)/xontai. a)nti\ tou= proba/llousi, protei/nousi.
Notes (2)
- Same entry in other lexica; references at Photius pi1419 Theodoridis.
- 1The headword -- imperfect middle, third person plural, of
proe/xw (pi 2916) -- is taken to be quoted from Homer, Odyssey 3.8. The gloss printed by Adler is aorist, though Adler reports that mss FVM have the imperfect (proe/ballon ) and Theodoridis suspects that that might be correct. ↩ - 2From Pericles' speech in Thucydides 1.140.4 (using the present tense of the headword verb: web address 1), with scholion. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history2 revisions · last 21 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth