Τῷ δὲ τοῦτο συμβαλὼν ἔχεις
but by what [means] did you infer this?
Translated by Catharine Roth23 Jan 2014Vetting: high2 revisions
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
- 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 verbe)/xw with aorist participles. For this sense ofsumba/llw see LSJ s.v., III.3.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history2 revisions · last 21 Sep 2022
- added a link — Catharine Roth
- expanded note; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth