Συνδέτας

bound hand and foot

Translated by Philip Rance1 May 2014Vetting: high2 revisions

2 notes · 29 words
[Meaning ones which have been] bound together.1
"For I kept my evil calculations [sc. as ones] bound hand and foot, while giving shape to the beauty of wise George."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Συνδέτας· συνδεδεμένους. κακοὺς γὰρ εἶχον τοὺς λογισμοὺς συνδέτας, μορφῶν τὸ κάλλος τοῦ σοφοῦ Γεωργίου.

Betacode
*sunde/tas: sundedeme/nous. kakou\s ga\r ei)=xon tou\s logismou\s sunde/tas, morfw=n to\ ka/llos tou= sofou= *gewrgi/ou.

Notes (2)

  1. 1The headword, clearly taken from the cited text, is the accusative plural of the rare masculine noun sunde/ths, a person bound hand and foot; see LSJ s.v. The gloss is the perfect passive participle, masculine accusative plural, of the cognate compound verb sunde/w. ↩
  2. 2Two lines of iambic trimeter by an unidentifiable author. Adler notes that Toup (1790) II 217-18 assigned them to George of Pisidia. ↩

References


Jonathan Toup, Emendationes in Suidam et Hesychium (London 1790)

Neighbouring entries

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Revision history2 revisions · last 1 May 2014
  1. more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
  2. Notes and keywords — Philip Rance
  3. Translated — Philip Rance

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