Παρακόψας

having gone mad

Translated by David Whitehead19 Nov 2007Vetting: high5 revisions

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[Meaning] having lost his mind. "He died, full of lots of unmixed wine and having gone mad, at the age of seventy-five".1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παρακόψας· τὸν νοῦν τραπείς. ἐτελεύτησε δέ, ἄκρατον πολὺν ἐμφορηθεὶς καὶ παρακόψας, ἤδη γεγονὼς ἔτος πέμπτον καὶ ἑβδομηκοστόν.

Betacode
*parako/yas: to\n nou=n trapei/s. e)teleu/thse de/, a)/kraton polu\n e)mforhqei\s kai\ parako/yas, h)/dh gegonw\s e)/tos pe/mpton kai\ e(bdomhkosto/n.

Notes (1)

  1. The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is the aorist participle (used intransitively) of the verb parako/ptw. See the related noun parakoph/ at pi 369.
  2. 1Diogenes Laertius 4.44 (citing Hermippus) on the early-Hellenistic philosopher Arcesilaus (alpha 3950). ↩

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π368Παρακονᾶνto whet againstπ369Παρακοπὴ φρενῶνfrenzy of witsπ370Παρακόψαςhaving gone madπ371Παρὰ κωφὸν ἀποπαρδεῖνto fart beside a deaf manπ372Παρακροτοῦντεςcheering on
Revision history5 revisions · last 21 May 2021
  1. cross-reference — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaks — David Whitehead
  4. typos — David Whitehead
  5. set status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

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