Ξυλλαβεῖν
to seize; to assist
Translated by James L. P. Butrica ✝18 Feb 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
There is a two-fold usage of sullabei=n in the ancient [writers]; for the meaning is different according to the different construction.1 If the syntax involves the accusative, it shows the enmity and hostility of the person who seizes, the wickedness of the one who is seized, as in current usage, "to seize" the man. Also Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Meidias [writes]: "will we not seize him?".2 If the dative, it indicates friendship and alliance, as Isocrates [shows] in the Counsels: "I see fortune too assisting us".3 The equivalent of saying 'striving in concert with'. He adds, at any rate, [the phrase] "the present moment too is striving in concert [with us]". Also Demosthenes in Philippics 1.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ξυλλαβεῖν· διττή ἐστιν ἡ χρῆσις τοῦ συλλαβεῖν παρὰ τοῖς ἀρχαίοις· πρὸς γὰρ διάφορον κλίσιν διάφορος καὶ ἡ διάνοια. ἐὰν μὲν γὰρ πρὸς αἰτιατικὴν ἡ σύνταξις ᾖ, ἔχθραν καὶ δυσμένειαν παρίστησι τοῦ συλλαμβάνοντος, κακουργίαν δὲ τοῦ συλλαμβανομένου, ὡς νῦν, ξυλλαβεῖν τὸν ἄνδρα. καὶ Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Μειδίου· οὐχὶ συλληψόμεθα αὐτόν; ἐὰν δὲ πρὸς δοτικήν, σημαίνει φιλίαν καὶ συμμαχίαν, ὡς Ἰσοκράτης ἐν ταῖς Παραινέσεσιν· ὁρῶ δὲ καὶ τὴν τύχην ἡμῖν συλλαμβάνουσαν. ἴσον τῷ συναγωνιζομένην. ἐπάγει γοῦν, καὶ τὸν παρόντα καιρὸν συναγωνιζόμενον. καὶ Δημοσθένης αʹ Φιλιππικῶν.
Betacode
*cullabei=n: ditth/ e)stin h( xrh=sis tou= sullabei=n para\ toi=s a)rxai/ois: pro\s ga\r dia/foron kli/sin dia/foros kai\ h( dia/noia. e)a\n me\n ga\r pro\s ai)tiatikh\n h( su/ntacis h)=|, e)/xqran kai\ dusme/neian pari/sthsi tou= sullamba/nontos, kakourgi/an de\ tou= sullambanome/nou, w(s nu=n, cullabei=n to\n a)/ndra. kai\ *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| kata\ *meidi/ou: ou)xi\ sullhyo/meqa au)to/n; e)a\n de\ pro\s dotikh/n, shmai/nei fili/an kai\ summaxi/an, w(s *)isokra/ths e)n tai=s *paraine/sesin: o(rw= de\ kai\ th\n tu/xhn h(mi=n sullamba/nousan. i)/son tw=| sunagwnizome/nhn. e)pa/gei gou=n, kai\ to\n paro/nta kairo\n sunagwnizo/menon. kai\ *dhmosqe/nhs a# *filippikw=n.
Notes (4)
- The forms in this entry veer back and forth between
c- (the headword) ands- . - 1i.e. it (aorist active infinitive of
sullamba/nw /cullamba/nw ) will mean 'seize' or 'assist' according to the case with which it is construed. ↩ - 2Demosthenes 21.116 (web address 1). ↩
- 3Isocrates 1.3 (web address 2). (Counsels is the work more usually known, nowadays, as To Demonicus.) ↩
- 4The numeral '1' (alpha in Greek) must be faulty, as there is nothing germane in the First Philippic (whether that means Demosthenes 1 or, on the narrower definition of Philippics, Demosthenes 4). Adler tentatively suggests an emendation to '2' (beta), with the passage of relevance being Demosthenes 6.15 (where editors print Weil's
sullamba/nein for the transmittedsumba/llein andsuneisba/llein ). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history7 revisions · last 14 Dec 2020
- coding — Catharine Roth
- upgraded links — Catharine Roth
- expanded notes; tweaking — David Whitehead
- augmented note — Catharine Roth
- added betacode and links, raised status — Catharine Roth
- added keyword; restorative and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added headword, note, keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — James L. P. Butrica ✝