Παρατυχόν

happening to be within one's power

Translated by Ronald Allen4 Nov 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

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Instead of paratuxo/ntos; as e)/con ["it being possible"] [is used] instead of e)/contos.¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παρατυχόν· ἀντὶ τοῦ παρατυχόντος· ὡς καὶ ἐξὸν ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐξόντος.

Betacode

*paratuxo/n: a)nti\ tou= paratuxo/ntos: w(s kai\ e)co\n a)nti\ tou= e)co/ntos.

The headword is the aorist active participle, neuter accusative singular, of the verb paratugxa/nw, I happen to be present, available; see generally LSJ s.v. It is extracted from Thucydides 1.76.2 (web address 1), where Athenian ambassadors in Sparta in late 432 BCE explain Athens' post-Persian-War acquisition of an empire as taking natural human advantage of what simply happened to be within their power.
1From the scholia to the aforementioned passage in Thucydides. The point, made both directly and with a parallel, is that an accusative absolute is being used rather than a genitive absolute (see Smyth §2076, web address 2). For e)/con (of which there are three instances in Thucydides), see also epsilon 1799, epsilon 1800. ↩

Revision history4 revisions · last 16 Aug 2019

16 Aug 2019cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
30 Aug 2011more pruning; tweaks — David Whitehead
5 Nov 2010pruned notes and keywords — David Whitehead
5 Nov 2010modified translation and note, added link and cross-references, set status — Catharine Roth
4 Nov 2010Translated — Ronald Allen