Συνεῖχεν

was keeping together

Translated by David Whitehead22 Oct 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

1 note · 20 words

Translation

[He/she/it] was drilling, was training. Diodorus [writes]: "he was keeping them together to be soldiers, profferring himself as an example."1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Συνεῖχεν· ἐξήσκει, ἐγύμναζε. Διόδωρος· ὁ δὲ συνεῖχεν αὐτοὺς εἶναι στρατιώτας, παράδειγμα ὑποθεὶς ἑαυτόν.

Betacode
*sunei=xen: e)ch/skei, e)gu/mnaze. *dio/dwros: o( de\ sunei=xen au)tou\s ei)=nai stratiw/tas, para/deigma u(poqei\s e(auto/n. 

Notes (1)

  1. The headword (third person singular, imperfect, of sune/xw) is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
  2. 1Diodorus Siculus fr. 10 Walton (where Dindorf suggested e)n stratei/ais for the transmitted ei)=nai stratiw/tas); individual and context indeterminable. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 14 Mar 2014
  1. expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. augmented notes; another keyword — David Whitehead
  4. set status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“was keeping together.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 22 October 2010. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/sigma/1544>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/sigma/1544>.

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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