Παρίστασαι
you impose yourself
Translated by William Hutton15 Aug 2011Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] you enslave and you make subject. Or meaning you uproot. Sophocles [writes]: "you take what you want, and you impose yourself by force, and you think my city is is void of men or some slave-city."1 They were accustomed to speak in this way; and to mean 'they put to flight' we would say 'they uprooted'; but they [would say] 'they imposed themselves'.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παρίστασαι· καταδουλοῖς καὶ ὑποχείριον ποιεῖς. ἢ ἀντὶ τοῦ μεθίστασαι. Σοφοκλῆς· ἄγεις θ', ἃ χρῄζεις, καὶ παρίστασαι βίᾳ, καί μοι πόλιν κένανδρον ἢ δούλην τινὰ ἔδοξας εἶναι. εἰώθεσαν δὲ οὕτω λέγειν· καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐφυγάδευσαν ἡμεῖς ἂν εἴποιμεν, μετεστήσαντο· οἱ δὲ παρεστήσαντο.
Betacode
*pari/stasai: katadouloi=s kai\ u(poxei/rion poiei=s. h)\ a)nti\ tou= meqi/stasai. *sofoklh=s: a)/geis q', a(\ xrh/|zeis, kai\ pari/stasai bi/a|, kai/ moi po/lin ke/nandron h)\ dou/lhn tina\ e)/docas ei)=nai. ei)w/qesan de\ ou(/tw le/gein: kai\ a)nti\ tou= e)fuga/deusan h(mei=s a)\n ei)/poimen, metesth/santo: oi( de\ paresth/santo.
Notes (2)
- The headword (extracted from the quotation given) is present indicative middle, second person singular, of
pari/sthmi . For the primary sense of it illustrated here, see LSJ s.v., C.II.1 (web address 1: citing the present instance amongst others); but see further below.
For other forms of the same verb see pi 441 to pi 444, pi 447, pi 448, pi 658 and pi 659. - 1Theseus to Kreon in Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 916-918 (web address 2), with comments derived from the scholia. ↩
- 2This sense of the headword verb (already anticipated above) is not clearly attested elsewhere and may be an incorrect extrapolation from the Sophoclean context. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- π658Παρίστασθαιto stand beside, to bring to one's side[Used] with a dative. Arrian [writes]: "Alexander commanded [them] either to take the territories along the road by force or to make them allies by agreement." And elsewhere Damascius says: "he did not accept money…
- π659ΠαρίστημιI dispose, I impose[Meaning] the [verb] I take. [Used] with an accusative: "of which some he was seizing by force, some he disposes by agreement."
Neighbouring entries
Revision history3 revisions · last 15 Jun 2021
- added links — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr and notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton