Τῷ δὲ τοῦτο συμβαλὼν ἔχεις

but by what [means] did you infer this?

Translated by Catharine Roth23 Jan 2014Vetting: high2 revisions

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Translation

[Meaning] by what evidence did [you] observe and guess [it]?

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τῷ δὲ τοῦτο συμβαλὼν ἔχεις· τίνι τεκμηρίῳ νοήσας καὶ στοχασάμενος;

Betacode
*tw=| de\ tou=to sumbalw\n e)/xeis: ti/ni tekmhri/w| noh/sas kai\ stoxasa/menos; 

Notes

  1. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1474 (web address 1), with scholion. (The line is attributed to the chorus in the mss of Sophocles but modern editions follow Adrian Turnebus [1512-1565] in assigning it to Antigone. The addressee is Oedipus.)
    In Sophocles and the scholion alike, the Greek idiom (hard to convey in translation) uses the verb e)/xw with aorist participles. For this sense of sumba/llw see LSJ s.v., III.3.

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Revision history2 revisions · last 21 Sep 2022
  1. added a link — Catharine Roth
  2. expanded note; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“but by what [means] did you infer this?” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 23 January 2014. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/tau/854>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/tau/854>.

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

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