Ῥοπή

balance

Translated by David Whitehead21 Sep 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 21 words

[Meaning] inclination.¹
"Thinking that the hegemony of his native city/land lay in the balance, he accomplished a deed worthy of memory."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ῥοπή· κλίσις. ὁ δὲ νομίσας ἐπὶ ῥοπῆς κεῖσθαι τὴν τῆς πατρίδος ἡγεμονίαν ἐπετελέσατο πρᾶξιν μνήμης ἀξίαν.

Betacode

*(roph/: kli/sis. o( de\ nomi/sas e)pi\ r(oph=s kei=sqai th\n th=s patri/dos h(gemoni/an e)petele/sato pra=cin mnh/mhs a)ci/an.

For this headword see already rho 230.
1Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius rho159 Theodoridis. ↩
2The individual is unidentifiable, but the quotation, it may be suggested, is a fragment of Diodorus Siculus. For nomi/sas e)pi\ r(oph=s kei=sqai th\n th=s patri/dos h(gemoni/an, cf. D.S. 20.34.2 on Agathocles (o(rw=n th\n swthri/an e)pi\ r(oph=s keime/nhn); for e)petele/sato pra=cin mnh/mhs a)ci/an, cf. (e.g.) D.S. 15.64.3 on Ischola(o)s the Spartan (e)petele/sato pra=cin h(rwikh\n kai\ mnh/mhs a)ci/an). ↩

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