Ὑποκατακλίνεται

sits down low

Translated by Ioannis Doukas23 Apr 2008Vetting: high6 revisions

1 note · 21 words

[Meaning he/she/it] sits below. "Invited to a banquet, [Hyrcanus] sits down below everyone, despised as being still a child in age."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὑποκατακλίνεται· ὑποκάτω κάθηται. κληθεὶς δὲ εἰς ἑστίασιν ὑποκατακλίνεται πάντων, καταφρονηθεὶς ὡς παῖς ἔτι τὴν ἡλικίαν.

Betacode

*(upokatakli/netai: u(poka/tw ka/qhtai. klhqei\s de\ ei)s e(sti/asin u(pokatakli/netai pa/ntwn, katafronhqei\s w(s pai=s e)/ti th\n h(liki/an.

Notes (1)

The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
1Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.210 (web address 1). ↩

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

π3040ΠτολεμαῖοςPtolemaios, PtolemyThe king of Egypt. [It is recorded] that when Hyrcanus was dining with King Ptolemy and all the other guests were eating their meat and piling the bones up in front of Hyrcanus, Tryphon, the king's jester, said:…

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υ507Ὑποκαθημένηςlying in, settling in υ508Ὑποκατάβασινretreat υ509Ὑποκατακλίνεταιsits down low υ510Ὑποκεκορισμένῃpretended υ511ὙπόκειμαιI lie under

Revision history6 revisions · last 11 Dec 2022

11 Dec 2022tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
11 Dec 2022tweaked link — Catharine Roth
28 Nov 2013Revised — David Whitehead
10 Aug 2011Revised — David Whitehead
24 Apr 2008more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
23 Apr 2008tweaked link, added keywords, set status — Catharine Roth
23 Apr 2008Translated — Ioannis Doukas