Παρουσία
resource, presence
Translated by William Hutton19 Aug 2011Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
This is the term used in reference to an abundance of available things; as it is in Plato's Phaedo: "as we are now in terms of resource."1 It is frequent in this sense in them [i.e. Attic authors]. But it is also applied in reference to being present, as it is in Sophocles' Bathing-Scene: "the presence of those who are near."2 Thucydides in [book] 1 [writes]: "for, having captured Byzantium on his earlier presence, [...]."3 For 'absence' signifies the opposite of this.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παρουσία· λέγεται οὕτως ἐπὶ τῆς τῶν παρόντων δαψιλείας· ὡς καὶ ἐν τῷ Πλάτωνος Φαίδωνι· ὡς καὶ νῦν ἔχομεν παρουσίας. καὶ πολύ ἐστιν ἐπὶ τούτου παρ' αὐτοῖς. καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρεῖναι δὲ τάσσεται, ὡς καὶ ἐν τοῖς Νίπτροις Σοφοκλέους· τὴν παρουσίαν τῶν ἐγγὺς ὄντων. Θουκυδίδης ἐν τῷ αʹ· Βυζάντιον γὰρ ἑλὼν τῇ προτέρᾳ παρουσίᾳ. τούτῳ γὰρ τὸ ἐναντίον σημαίνει ἡ ἀπουσία.
Betacode
*parousi/a: le/getai ou(/tws e)pi\ th=s tw=n paro/ntwn dayilei/as: w(s kai\ e)n tw=| *pla/twnos *fai/dwni: w(s kai\ nu=n e)/xomen parousi/as. kai\ polu/ e)stin e)pi\ tou/tou par' au)toi=s. kai\ e)pi\ tou= parei=nai de\ ta/ssetai, w(s kai\ e)n toi=s *ni/ptrois *sofokle/ous: th\n parousi/an tw=n e)ggu\s o)/ntwn. *qoukudi/dhs e)n tw=| a#: *buza/ntion ga\r e(lw\n th=| prote/ra| parousi/a|. tou/tw| ga\r to\ e)nanti/on shmai/nei h( a)pousi/a.
Notes (3)
- = Aelius Dionysius pi23 and Photius pi449 Theodoridis, but with one important departure: see n. 1 below. Cf. pi 706.
- 1An erroneous attribution: Aelius Dionysius and Photius ascribe the line to the Phaon of Plato the comic playwright = fr. 177 Kock (194 K.-A.). ↩
- 2Sophocles fr. 451a Radt. ↩
- 3Thucydides 1.128.5 (on Regent Pausanias of Sparta). ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 18 Jun 2021
- cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- tweaks — David Whitehead
- more keywords; typo and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton