Τολμῆσαι
to dare, to submit
Translated by Catharine Roth20 Jan 2014Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to endure.1 [In book] 9 of Laws [Plato writes]: "if someone kills [his] father, [that] he must endure this, suffering by force at the hands of [his] children."2 And in [book] 2 [he writes] "that he dare," instead of that he endure daring.3
And Aristophanes [writes]: "o you foul man and rash and shameless, and foul and all-foul and most foul, how have you come here, o most foul of all foul men?"4
And Aristophanes [writes]: "o you foul man and rash and shameless, and foul and all-foul and most foul, how have you come here, o most foul of all foul men?"4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τολμῆσαι· ὑπομεῖναι. Νόμων θʹ· εἰ πατέρα ἀποκτείνει τις, αὐτὸν τοῦτον ὑπὸ τέκνων τολμῆσαι βίᾳ πάσχοντα. καὶ ἐν βʹ τολμῶν, ἀντὶ τοῦ τολμῶν ὑπομένοι. καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης· ὦ μιαρὲ καὶ τολμηρὲ κἀναίσχυντε σύ, καὶ μιαρὲ καὶ παμμίαρε καὶ μιαρώτατε, πῶς δεῦρ' ἀνῆλθες, ὦ μιαρῶν μιαρώτατε;
Betacode
*tolmh=sai: u(pomei=nai. *no/mwn q#: ei) pate/ra a)poktei/nei tis, au)to\n tou=ton u(po\ te/knwn tolmh=sai bi/a| pa/sxonta. kai\ e)n b# tolmw=n, a)nti\ tou= tolmw=n u(pome/noi. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: w)= miare\ kai\ tolmhre\ ka)nai/sxunte su/, kai\ miare\ kai\ pammi/are kai\ miarw/tate, pw=s deu=r' a)nh=lqes, w)= miarw=n miarw/tate;
Notes (4)
- 1The headword is aorist active infinitive of
tolma/w . For the glossing cf. generally tau 741. ↩ - 2Plato, Laws 872E (which has neuter
tou=to , not masculinetou=ton , and present tensea)poktei/nei instead of Plato's imperfect or aorista)pe/kteinen : see web address 1). ↩ - 3Taken to refer to Plato, Laws 661A (where however the verb is
tolmw=| as an optative, not the Suda's participle. Porson's edition of Photius readstolmw= , but Theodoridis notes Naber's correction to the optative). Up to this point, the entry = Photius, Lexicon tau363, where other references are cited for the initial glossing. ↩ - 4An approximation of Aristophanes, Peace 182-4 (web address 2), quoted here to illustrate the adjective
tolmhro/s (tau 742) rather than the headword verb; cf. mu 1027. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 10 Sep 2022
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- coding — David Whitehead
- expansions to notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Catharine Roth