Ψυχομαχοῦντες
fighting for their lives
Translated by David Whitehead26 Nov 2001Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ψυχομαχοῦντες· Πολύβιος· οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι ψυχομαχοῦντες, σχεδὸν ἢ ιεʹ ἔτη τῶν κατὰ θάλασσαν πραγμάτων ὁλοσχερῶς ἀφεστηκότες. ἦν δὲ καὶ τῆς ὕστερον ἐπιβολῆς τὸ πλεῖον ψυχομαχία. περὶ τὸ ψῦχος μάχη.
Betacode
*yuxomaxou=ntes: *polu/bios: oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi yuxomaxou=ntes, sxedo\n h)\ ie# e)/th tw=n kata\ qa/lassan pragma/twn o(losxerw=s a)festhko/tes. h)=n de\ kai\ th=s u(/steron e)pibolh=s to\ plei=on yuxomaxi/a. peri\ to\ yu=xos ma/xh.
Notes (3)
- The headword participle is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
- 1Polybius 1.59.1, who says five years (and in fact should have said six). See web address 1. ↩
- 2Polybius 1.59.6, as construed by Walbank 123 (which gives the verb a meaning different from that in the earlier passage). ↩
- 3So the transmitted text,
peri\ to\ yu=xos ; but in the 1543 Basel edition of the Suda it is plausibly emended toperi\ th=s yuxh=s , 'of life and death'. ↩
References
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, i (Oxford 1957)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history8 revisions · last 27 Aug 2023
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- fixed link, tweaked note 3 — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added primary note and another keyword — David Whitehead
- added a third note — David Whitehead
- supplemented translation, added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- added keyword — David Whitehead
- Translated — David Whitehead