Πτοία

terror

Translated by William Hutton25 Sep 2013Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 36 words
[Meaning] commotion, fear.1
"The Scythians converted everything into so much fright and terror that he, a single person, pursued ten thousand who had weapons but did not raise their hands against him though he was unarmed."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πτοία· πτόησις. φόβος. οἱ δὲ Σκύθαι ἐς τοῦτο δείματος καὶ πτοίας ἅπαντα περιέστησαν, ὥστε εἷς καὶ μυρίους ἐδίωκεν, εἰ καὶ ἦν ἄνοπλος, ὅπλα ἔχοντας καὶ χεῖρας οὐκ ἀνταιρομένους.

Betacode
*ptoi/a: pto/hsis. fo/bos. oi( de\ *sku/qai e)s tou=to dei/matos kai\ ptoi/as a(/panta perie/sthsan, w(/ste ei(=s kai\ muri/ous e)di/wken, ei) kai\ h)=n a)/noplos, o(/pla e)/xontas kai\ xei=ras ou)k a)ntairome/nous.

Notes (2)

  1. The headword is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, possibly extracted from some literary context (but, if so, not from the quotation given: see n. 2). See also pi 3058 for its accusative case, with similar glossing.
  2. 1For the first gloss cf. Pollux 5.122, Etymologicum Magnum s.v. ptoi=ai (694.57); for the second ps.-Herodian, Epimerismi 117, Hesychius pi4253, Etymologicum Magnum s.v. ptow= (694.53), and, according to Adler, Lexicon Ambrosianum 1455. ↩
  3. 2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus) unidentifiable. The headword noun appears here in the genitive case. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 23 Oct 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. another keyword; adjustments — David Whitehead
  3. tweaked translation, set status — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — William Hutton

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