Στειλάμενοι
dispatching themselves; concealing themselves
Translated by William Hutton4 Apr 2014Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning they who were] dispatching.1
Also [sc. attested is the corresponding infinitive]stei/lasqai ["to dispatch/conceal one's self"], meaning to hide. "But a certain few, afraid that they might be exposed through an inability to conceal themselves, were bringing up the gold." And again: "Perseus wanted to conceal what had happened, [but] he was not actually able to hide what had happened."2
Also [sc. attested is the corresponding infinitive]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Στειλάμενοι· στείλαντες. καὶ Στείλασθαι, ἀντὶ τοῦ κρύψαι. ὀλίγοι δέ τινες δεδιότες, μήποτ' οὐ δυνάμενοι στείλασθαι καταφανεῖς γένωνται, ἀνέφερον τὸ χρυσίον. καὶ αὖθις· ὁ δὲ Περσεὺς ἐβουλεύετο μὲν στέλλεσθαι τὸ γεγονός, οὐ μὴν ἐδύνατό γε κρύπτειν τὸ γεγονός.
Betacode
*steila/menoi: stei/lantes. kai\ *stei/lasqai, a)nti\ tou= kru/yai. o)li/goi de/ tines dedio/tes, mh/pot' ou) duna/menoi stei/lasqai katafanei=s ge/nwntai, a)ne/feron to\ xrusi/on. kai\ au)=qis: o( de\ *perseu\s e)bouleu/eto me\n ste/llesqai to\ gegono/s, ou) mh\n e)du/nato/ ge kru/ptein to\ gegono/s.
Notes (2)
- 1= Synagoge sigma201, Photius sigma517 Theodoridis; cf. Hesychius sigma1698, Pollux 1.107. The headword is aorist middle participle, masculine plural nominative, of
ste/llw ; it is glossed by the corresponding aorist active participle of the same verb. (For other forms see sigma 1077 and sigma 1078.) As the gloss suggests,ste/llw admits both transitive and intransitive usages in both the active and middle, and is capable of taking on a wide variety of meanings, including make ready, dispatch, send, furl, contract, cover, conceal, etc. The present headword is evidently extracted from a literary source, but not from the quotations that follow, where other forms of the verb appear. Similarities between a scholion to Oppian, Halieutica 5.529, and Hesychius sigma1698 suggest Oppian as a possible source, and the current gloss has been translated accordingly, although unlike Hesychius the scholion to Oppian does not include a particularly close parallel to the present gloss. ↩ - 2Both quotations -- the first of which includes the aorist middle infinitive cited, the second the present middle infinitive -- are taken to be excerpts from Polybius (fr. 220 and 221 Büttner-Wobst), via the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, according to Adler. For Perseus -- the Macedonian king, not the mythological hero -- see pi 1370. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 6 Apr 2014
- tweaked translation, augmented note 1, added footnote number — William Hutton
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- another x-ref; andther keyword; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- added cross-references — William Hutton
- Translated — William Hutton