Πασσυδεί
wholly
Translated by William Hutton30 Aug 2011Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] completely. Thucydides [in book 8 writes]:1 "not so wholly destroyed,"2 which some in their ignorance write as passudi/ . It is also in the Deserters of Pherecrates.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πασσυδεί· παντελῶς. ὁ Θουκυδίδης· εἰ μὴ οὕτως τε πασσυδεὶ διεφθάρθαι. ὅπερ ἀγνοήσαντές τινες γράφουσι πασσυδί. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Αὐτομόλοις Φερεκράτου.
Betacode
*passudei/: pantelw=s. o( *qoukudi/dhs: ei) mh\ ou(/tws te passudei\ diefqa/rqai. o(/per a)gnoh/sante/s tines gra/fousi passudi/. e)/sti kai\ e)n *au)tomo/lois *ferekra/tou.
Notes (3)
- The entire entry (also in Photius: pi 472 Theodoridis) is a garbled version of Aelius Dionysius pi10, with the point of the entry obscured by inaccuracies. Dionysius is criticizing those who write the word with internal assimilation (
passudi/ orpassudei/ , rather thanpansudi/ orpansudei/ ) which Dionysius considers un-Thucydidean. The version here makes it seems as if the controversy is betweenpassudi/ and the variant, homophonous in late Greek,passudei/ . The major mss of Thucydides (see n. 2 below) readpansudi/ , though the variants with internal assimilation and the-ei/ ending are attested in scholia and commentaries. - 1The numeral 8 should be explicit, as in the earlier lexica, but has become here corrupted into 'if', the supposed first word of the quotation, for which see next note ↩
- 2A garbled quotation of Thucydides 8.1.1, on Athenian incredulity at early reports of the destruction of their forces in Sicily (web address 1); quoted more accurately by Aelius Dionysius (see previous note). ↩
- 3Pherecrates fr. 31 Kock (36 K.-A.). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 22 May 2016
- typo — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; another note — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton