Ὑβρίζοντες
braying violently
Translated by David Whitehead31 Oct 2005Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning they] acting skittishly.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὑβρίζοντες· σκιρτῶντες. Ἡρόδοτος.
Betacode
*(ubri/zontes: skirtw=ntes. *(hro/dotos.
Notes
- From glosses on Herodotus 4.129.2, where this nominative plural participle (of upsilon 13, cf. upsilon 11) is applied to the braying of Persian donkeys in Scythia: web address 1. For this sense of the verb see generally LSJ s.v., I.2
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- υ11Ὑβρίζεινto do violence, to act insolentlyIn reference to behaving shamefully. "[He] supposed that they, wicked as they were, [sc. were disposed] to do violence and to be idle." "But he did not live at random, as least as far as I can judge, nor indeed like the…
- υ13ὙβρίζωI humiliate, I outrage, I violate[Used] with an accusative.
- υ16Ὕβριςhybris, assault, outrage[Meaning] the [sc. sort of attack that comes] with contumely and abuse, whereas battery [ai)ki/a] [sc. is a matter of] blows only. Lysias in the [speech] On Battery in reply to Isokrates [writes]: "and yet which of you…
- υ17Ὑβρίσασινon those who had outraged[Meaning] on those had sinned disgracefully. "There too [he] imposed a penalty, outside what was due, on soldiers who had outraged [someone/something]; but the penalty was less than what was due".
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