Ῥησίαρχος
speech-leader
Translated by Catharine Roth15 Sep 2010Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he] who will state1 the oracles. [Used] in Epicharmus.2 He has said [this] to those3 contrary to the decree; or, as Asclepiades [writes] in the 6th [book] of Tragic Subjects,4 that5 he has become best at speaking the truth. But another also became [this].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥησίαρχος· ὃς ἐρέει τὰ θέσφατα. παρ' Ἐπιχάρμῳ. τοῖς παρὰ τὴν ῥῆσιν εἴρηκεν· ἤ, ὡς Ἀσκληπιάδης ἐν ʹ2ʹ Τραγῳδουμένων, ἄριστον αὐτὸν γεγονέναι ἀλήθειαν εἰπεῖν. ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ ἕτερος.
Betacode
*(rhsi/arxos: o(\s e)re/ei ta\ qe/sfata. par' *)epixa/rmw|. toi=s para\ th\n r(h=sin ei)/rhken: h)/, w(s *)asklhpia/dhs e)n #2# *tragw|doume/nwn, a)/riston au)to\n gegone/nai a)lh/qeian ei)pei=n. e)ge/neto de\ kai\ e(/teros.
Notes (5)
- = Photius, Lexicon rho103 Theodoridis, where however the headword is
r(hso/s and the glossing beginsa)rxo/s o(\s ktl . See also Hesychius rho272. - 1Hesychius reads
r(e/ei "flows"; Photius hasai(re/sei "by choice" (now obelized by Theodoridis). Kaibel [cf. next note] conjectureda)nairei= "takes up, declares (an oracle)." M. Schmidt suggestedxre/ei "delivers an oracle." ↩ - 2Epicharmus fr. 205 Kaibel (206 K.-A.). ↩
- 3Here the learned owner of ms M has written
lei/pei , "something is lacking," and G has a lacuna. Hesychius readsh)/toi "or else" (rightly, in Theodoridis' view). ↩ - 4Asclepiades of Tragilus [C4 BCE: OCD(4) s.v. Asclepiades(1)] FGrH 12 F5; see further, next note. ↩
- 5Jacoby's apparatus in FGrH tentatively suggests inserting
dia\ to\ beforea)/riston "because of his becoming best ...". ↩
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- coding, tweak — Catharine Roth
- updated a ref — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- my typo — David Whitehead
- expanded and tweaked notes; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth