Ὑποκνισθέντες

excited, stimulated

Translated by Ioannis Doukas20 Mar 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 27 words

Translation

[Meaning they who were] exasperated, provoked. For kni/zw means I scrape thinly from the surface.1 "[...] in order that, vainly excited, they would stir up a war".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὑποκνισθέντες· λυπηθέντες, παροξυνθέντες. κνίζω γὰρ τὸ ἐξεπιπολῆς ξύω. ἵνα μάτην ὑποκνισθέντες πόλεμον ἐγείρωσιν.

Betacode
*(upoknisqe/ntes: luphqe/ntes, parocunqe/ntes. kni/zw ga\r to\ e)cepipolh=s cu/w. i(/na ma/thn u(poknisqe/ntes po/lemon e)gei/rwsin. 

Notes (2)

  1. The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is aorist passive participle, masculine nominative plural, of u(pokni/zw.
  2. 1cf. kappa 1874. ↩
  3. 2Quotation unidentifiable. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 30 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaks — David Whitehead
  4. augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Ioannis Doukas

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