Παρασχόν
it having been possible
Translated by Ronald Allen9 Nov 2010Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παρασχόν· ἐπίρρημα. εἰ δέ γε παρασχὸν οὕτω κατάδηλος γένηται δόξαι λέγειν, ὡς παραγέγονε λέξων περὶ τῶν πρέσβεων.
Betacode
*parasxo/n: e)pi/rrhma. ei) de/ ge parasxo\n ou(/tw kata/dhlos ge/nhtai do/cai le/gein, w(s parage/gone le/cwn peri\ tw=n pre/sbewn.
Notes (2)
- The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is the aorist active participle, neuter (nominative, vocative, and) accusative singular, of the verb
pare/xw (I hold, supply, yield, offer, submit). See generally LSJ s.v., esp. A.II.2 on this impersonal idiom (for which see already epsilon 3637). - 1In grammatical parlance an
e)pi/rrhma is usually an adverb (in the Suda passim; Dickey, p. 238), or sometimes an interjection (ibid., p. 127); cf. epsilon 2546 and LSJ s.v.e)pi/rrhma . Its import here is obscure. (Adler notes that ms V hase)pi/grafon instead.) ↩ - 2The placement of the quotation is uncertain; however, it was associated by Bernhardy with Menander Protector fr. 66 FHG (4.268.b2), where the headword occurs. There the text describes how the Romans (in early 582 CE; Blockley, p. 286) ceded the city of Sirmium (Barrington Atlas map 21 grid B5; present-day Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia) to the Avars, with each inhabitant, having held onto just one cloak each, being allowed to evacuate (Blockley, pp. 240-1; Mitchell, p. 405). ↩
References
E. Dickey, Ancient Greek Scholarship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
R.C. Blockley, The History of Menander the Guardsman, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1985
S. Mitchell, A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient World, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007
R.C. Blockley, The History of Menander the Guardsman, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1985
S. Mitchell, A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient World, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007
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Revision history2 revisions · last 5 Sep 2013
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- modified headword and tr; tweaked and expanded notes; another keyword — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen