Στιβία

pathway

Translated by William Hutton8 Apr 2014Vetting: high5 revisions

5 notes · 46 words
['Pathway'] and sti/bos ['path']: [meaning] a road.1
"Having sent him ahead on that man's path he went."2
'Path' [is] masculine.3
And Herodotus [writes]: "and indeed the Persians [went] keeping to that path, the one that they had forged earlier."4
And Polybius [writes]: "along the same path."5

Greek original · Adler’s text

Στιβία καὶ Στίβος· ἡ ὁδός. αὐτὸν προπέμψας τὸν ἐκείνου στίβον ᾔει. ἀρσενικὸν ὁ στίβος. καὶ Ἡρόδοτος· οἱ δὲ δὴ Πέρσαι τὸν πρότερον ἑωϋτῶν γενόμενον στίβον, τοῦτον φυλάσσοντες ἦσαν. καὶ Πολύβιος· κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν στίβον.

Betacode
*stibi/a kai\ *sti/bos: h( o(do/s. au)to\n prope/myas to\n e)kei/nou sti/bon h)/|ei. a)rseniko\n o( sti/bos. kai\ *(hro/dotos: oi( de\ dh\ *pe/rsai to\n pro/teron e(wu+tw=n geno/menon sti/bon, tou=ton fula/ssontes h)=san. kai\ *polu/bios: kata\ to\n au)to\n sti/bon.

Notes (5)

  1. The initial headword stibi/a is the nominative singular form of a noun of which the only literary attestations are, in the genitive and dative singular, in the writings of Oppian, including Cynegetica 1.451 (genitive). The scholia to that passage offer the same gloss in the genitive (o(dou=). According to Adler the nominative stibi/a is glossed with nominative o(do/s in Lexicon Ambrosianum 803. An alternative (and in late Greek, homophonous) spelling of this word, stibei/a, is glossed similarly in ps.-Herodian, Epimerismi 128.13, but its only attestation in literature is in Diodorus Siculus 4.13.1, where it has the distinctly different sense of 'tracking'. None of the quotations that make up the bulk of this entry include this word; instead they exhibit the accusative singular form of the (nominative) secondary lemma sti/bos (see n. 1).
  2. 1For the secondary lemma sti/bos in combination with the gloss o(do/s, cf. Synagoge sigma227, Hesychius sigma1850, Etymologicum Magnum 727.35. The scholia to many works in which some form of the headword appears employ the same gloss, including Sophocles, Philoctetes 48, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 411, Euripides, Phoenissai 92, etc. ↩
  3. 2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. ↩
  4. 3This information is presumably offered to distinguish sti/bos from stibi/a, which is feminine. ↩
  5. 4Herodotus 4.140.3 (web address 1). In place of Herodotus' h)/isan ('went'), the Suda erroneously reads h)=san ('were'). ↩
  6. 5Polybius 2.25.5 (web address 2) ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 9 Apr 2022
  1. added links — Catharine Roth
  2. cosmeticules — Catharine Roth
  3. coding — David Whitehead
  4. another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
  5. typo — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — William Hutton

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