Παραφρυκτωρεῖν

to misuse the beacons

Translated by David Whitehead13 Dec 2000Vetting: high5 revisions

1 note · 31 words
Using the beacons inappropriately, that is, for the benefit of the enemy and to the detriment of the friendly side; just as Dinarchus used [the word] in a family of speeches.1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παραφρυκτωρεῖν· τὸ τοῖς φρυκτοῖς παρὰ τὸ προσῆκον χρῆσθαι, τουτέστιν ἐπὶ συμφέροντι μὲν τῶν πολεμίων ἐπὶ βλάβῃ δὲ τῶν φιλίων· ὡς καὶ Δείναρχος ἐν οἰκείῳ λόγων ἐχρήσατο.

Betacode
*parafruktwrei=n: to\ toi=s fruktoi=s para\ to\ prosh=kon xrh=sqai, toute/stin e)pi\ sumfe/ronti me\n tw=n polemi/wn e)pi\ bla/bh| de\ tw=n fili/wn: w(s kai\ *dei/narxos e)n oi)kei/w| lo/gwn e)xrh/sato.

Notes (1)

  1. cf. pi 485.
    Clumsily (see below) adapted from Harpokration s.v.
  2. 1So the transmitted text, but it is obviously faulty. See rather Harpok.: "so the same orator" - he has been cited earlier in the entry - "explained this in the speech" (Dinarchus fr. IX.4 Conomis). Mss GM have lo/gw| rather than lo/gwn ("in a family speech"), regarded as correct by Theodoridis on Photius, Lexicon pi328. ↩

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π484ΠαραφρονῶI am out of my mindπ485Παραφρυκτωρευόμενοςmaking improper beacon-signalsπ486Παραφρυκτωρεῖνto misuse the beaconsπ487ΠαραφυλάσσωI am on guard forπ488Παραχαράκτηςcounterfeiter
Revision history5 revisions · last 22 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Added cross-reference; cosmetics; set status — Elizabeth Vandiver
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

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