Πτώματα ἐλαιῶν

fallen olives, olive fallings

Translated by David Whitehead18 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

1 note · 32 words

Translation

Lysias in the [speech] Against Nikides1 might be referring [sc. when he uses this phrase] either to the fruit fallen from the trees or to the trees themselves, fallen by some accident.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πτώματα ἐλαιῶν· Λυσίας ἐν τῷ κατὰ Νικίδου λέγοι ἂν ἤτοι τὸν καρπὸν τὸν ἀποπεπτωκότα τῶν φυτῶν, ἢ αὐτὰ τὰ δένδρα, κατά τινα τύχην πεπτωκότα.

Betacode
*ptw/mata e)laiw=n: *lusi/as e)n tw=| kata\ *niki/dou le/goi a)\n h)/toi  to\n karpo\n to\n a)popeptwko/ta tw=n futw=n, h)\ au)ta\ ta\ de/ndra, kata/ tina tu/xhn peptwko/ta. 

Notes (1)

  1. = Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
  2. 1Lysias fr. 203 Sauppe, now 255 Carey OCT. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 15 Jul 2011
  1. updated note — David Whitehead
  2. another headword; more keywords — David Whitehead
  3. augmented note — Catharine Roth
  4. cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“fallen olives, olive fallings.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 18 December 2000. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/3047>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/pi/3047>.

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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