Ῥύσια
sureties
Translated by Catharine Roth24 Oct 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Pledges.1
Also [sc. attested is the related verb]r(usia/zw ["I treat as a pledge"].
"They say that [Polychares] killed the young man and seized the city."2 Meaning took pledges [sc. in reprisal].
Josephus [writes]: "for taking a pledge from the enemy and assembling a large body of cavalry he sends it against them near Diospolis."3
"So that Odysseus might have the wooden statue as a surety in Ithaca."4
And the tragedy [says]: "I will pay [death as] a surety of death, alas."5
Also [sc. attested is the related verb]
"They say that [Polychares] killed the young man and seized the city."2 Meaning took pledges [sc. in reprisal].
Josephus [writes]: "for taking a pledge from the enemy and assembling a large body of cavalry he sends it against them near Diospolis."3
"So that Odysseus might have the wooden statue as a surety in Ithaca."4
And the tragedy [says]: "I will pay [death as] a surety of death, alas."5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥύσια· ἐνέχυρα. καὶ Ῥυσιάζω. φασὶ δὲ τὸν νεανίσκον ἀνελεῖν καὶ τὴν πόλιν ῥυσιάζειν. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐνέχυρα λαμβάνειν. Ἰώσηπος· πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ῥύσιον τῶν πολεμίων ἄγων καὶ πολὺ συγκροτήσας ἱππικὸν ἐπαφίησιν αὐτοὺς περὶ Διόσπολιν. ὅπως ἔχοι τὸ ξόανον ῥύσιον ἐν Ἰθάκῃ ὁ Ὀδυσσεύς. καὶ ἡ τραγῳδία· φόνου δὲ ῥύσιον τίσω τάλας.
Betacode
*(ru/sia: e)ne/xura. kai\ *(rusia/zw. fasi\ de\ to\n neani/skon a)nelei=n kai\ th\n po/lin r(usia/zein. a)nti\ tou= e)ne/xura lamba/nein. *)iw/shpos: prw=ton me\n ga\r r(u/sion tw=n polemi/wn a)/gwn kai\ polu\ sugkroth/sas i(ppiko\n e)pafi/hsin au)tou\s peri\ *dio/spolin. o(/pws e)/xoi to\ co/anon r(u/sion e)n *)iqa/kh| o( *)odusseu/s. kai\ h( tragw|di/a: fo/nou de\ r(u/sion ti/sw ta/las.
Notes (5)
- 1Neuter plural(s). Same gloss in Photius, cf. Hesychius and scholia on Homer, Iliad 11.673, and Sophocles, Philoctetes 959. See also rho 309. ↩
- 2Diodorus Siculus 8.7.6 (via Excerpta Constantiniana EV I 214.11-12), on an episode in early Peloponnesian history (for which see also Pausanias 4.4.4ff): Euaiphnos the Spartan has killed the son of Polychares the Messenian, and P. here retaliates. ↩
- 3Josephus, Jewish War 1.366 (web address 1). This is the Diospolis (formerly Lydda) in Palestine, not the Egyptian one mentioned under delta 429 and mu 143. ↩
- 4Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 5Sophocles, Philoctetes 959 (web address 2). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 25 Jan 2012
- typo — Catharine Roth
- Revised — Philip Rance
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth