Ὑπετέμνετο
was being cut off
Translated by Catharine Roth19 Apr 2011Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὑπετέμνετο· ὑπεκρύπτετο. ἀπὸ συνθήματος ἀφιεμένων τῶν βελῶν, τὸ φῶς ὑπετέμνετο.
Betacode
*(upete/mneto: u(pekru/pteto. a)po\ sunqh/matos a)fieme/nwn tw=n belw=n, to\ fw=s u(pete/mneto.
Notes (2)
- 1The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation, is third person singular, imperfect middle/passive, of
u(pote/mnw . For this verb, see also upsilon 605, upsilon 606, upsilon 607, upsilon 608, upsilon 609, upsilon 610. ↩ - 2Not identified by Adler, but revealed by a TLG search to be from Josephus, Jewish War 3.266 (web address 1). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXVII. (Perhaps an allusion to Herodotus' famous 7.226 "we will fight in the shade.") ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from5 entries
- υ605Ὑποτεμέσθαιto cut off[Meaning] to separate. Xenophon [writes]: "if we charge against those men, those [others] in turn will cut us off; while as for us, the [sc. main] force has not yet come."
- υ606Ὑποτεμνόμενονcutting off[Meaning him] cutting out.
- υ607Ὑποτεμνόμενος τὸν πλοῦνcutting off the voyageMeaning [he] sailing by the shortest route, in order to apprehend the fugitive. So says Xenophon.
- υ608Ὑποτεμόμενοςcutting off, intercepting, undercutting[Meaning he] seizing. "Intercepting him in some watersmeet, he strikes the man in the back."
- υ609ὙποτεμοῦμαιI will undercutand 'I will whittle your arrogance away'; Aristophanes [sc. says this]. For tanners undercut skins to [make them] seem thicker.
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- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth