Συννήσας

having piled together

Translated by David Whitehead29 May 2014Vetting: high2 revisions

2 notes · 37 words

Translation

[Meaning he] having heaped together. Herodotus [writes]: "having piled together a large pyre [...] he threw [himself] into the fire."1
And Damascius [writes]: "and others in the middle of the time having piled together a great treasure."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Συννήσας· συσσωρεύσας. Ἡρόδοτος· συννήσας πυρὴν μεγάλην ἐσέβαλεν ἐς τὸ πῦρ. καὶ Δαμάσκιος· καὶ ἄλλους ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ χρόνου πολὺν θησαυρὸν συννήσαντας.

Betacode
*sunnh/sas: susswreu/sas. *(hro/dotos: sunnh/sas purh\n mega/lhn e)se/balen e)s to\ pu=r. kai\ *dama/skios: kai\ a)/llous e)n me/sw| tou= xro/nou polu\n qhsauro\n sunnh/santas. 

Notes (2)

  1. This is LSJ's sunne/w (B).
  2. 1An abridgement of Herodotus 7.107.2 (on the despairing suicide of Boges, the Persian governor of Eion, when his town was besieged and captured by the Athenians under Kimon). ↩
  3. 2Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 79 Zintzen (36 Asmus). ↩

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Revision history2 revisions · last 29 May 2014
  1. expanded n.1; more keywords — David Whitehead
  2. coding, status — Catharine Roth
  3. Translated — David Whitehead

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