Σχέδην
at close quarters
Translated by Ronald Allen23 Jun 2014Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Meaning near at hand.1
"They were being harmed as a result of arrows [or: archers] and, as often at close quarters, they might have engaged."2
"He did not think it right to give himself up to someone fighting at close quarters and nearby, so as not to become a possession or booty-item of the enemy."3
"They were being harmed as a result of arrows [or: archers] and, as often at close quarters, they might have engaged."2
"He did not think it right to give himself up to someone fighting at close quarters and nearby, so as not to become a possession or booty-item of the enemy."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σχέδην· ἀντὶ τοῦ σύνεγγυς. ἐκ τοξευμάτων ἐβλάπτοντο καὶ ὅτε σχέδην συμφέροιντο. σχέδην καὶ ἐγγὺς μαχομένῳ μεθεῖναι μὲν αὑτὸν οὐκ ἠξίωσεν, ὡς μὴ τὸ κτῆμα ἢ φόρημα τοῦ πολεμίου γένοιτο.
Betacode
*sxe/dhn: a)nti\ tou= su/neggus. e)k toceuma/twn e)bla/ptonto kai\ o(/te sxe/dhn sumfe/rointo. sxe/dhn kai\ e)ggu\s maxome/nw| meqei=nai me\n au(to\n ou)k h)ci/wsen, w(s mh\ to\ kth=ma h)\ fo/rhma tou= polemi/ou ge/noito.
Notes (3)
- The headword, a one-word adverb in the Greek, is registered by LSJ s.v. with the primary meaning gently, slowly (in Xenophon and elsewhere; however, LSJ's sense II, at close quarters, is the one required here and is illustrated by both of the quotations given. Besides LSJ, see Trapp, p. 1729, s.v.
sxe/dhn , in der Nähe (in the vicinity). - 1The gloss is also an adverb; cf. alpha 4528 (gloss), epsilon 585 (gloss), pi 2617 (end), and see generally LSJ s.v.
Other lexica supplying similar entries are Hesychius (sigma2968, s.v.sxedo/n ) and Etymologicum Magnum 739.45 (Kallierges) (s.v.sxedo/n , near, hard by). This same alternative form appears at Homer, Iliad 3.15 (web address 1), where Alexandros/Paris challenges the best of the Argives to individual combat as soon as the Trojan and Achaean forces had drawn near; cf. the corresponding D scholion, which glossessxedo/n asplhsi/on ,e)ggu/s , close, nearby. ↩ - 2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. On the ambiguity of
to/ceuma see LSJ s.v. ↩ - 3Quotation (again, in Adler's view, transmitted via the Excerpta) likewise unidentifiable. In her critical apparatus Adler reports that mss FV read
ga\r kai\ , For while fighting at close quarters…; also that Bernhardy suggested replacingto\ withti (anyone) ortoi , (then, surely, verily). ↩
References
E. Trapp, ed., Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität, Faszikel 7 (prospe/lasis - tarixeutiko/s ), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from6 entries
- σ1771Σχεδίαraft[Meaning] a ship constructed out of whatever [materials] are to hand, or impromptu; also [sc. can mean] a bridge, and a pontoon.
- σ1773Σχεδιάζεινto improvise[Meaning] to bring near, to draw near to, to show forth [something of one's own] at random. "From beginning to end [objectives] had been improvised and entirely missed.".
- σ1774Σχεδιασθείςhaving been improvised[Meaning] having been spoken offhand.
- σ1775Σχέδιονnearby, random[Meaning] from what is at hand. And Aristophanes [writes]: "but these seem like random [inventions]." That is, they have been spoken on the spur of the moment.
- σ1776Σχέδιοιclose, casual, temporary, off-hand, random[Meaning ones which are] cheap/easily-acquired.
- σ1777Σχεδίως ἐκτράφηθι[don't?] be randomly led astray[no gloss]
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