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Headword:
Metamathein
Adler number: mu,707
Translated headword: to relearn, to unlearn
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to repent.[1]
To cease.
Agathias [writes]: "you who had sworn have violated the treaties without constraint. But if even now you were to be willing to relearn what is advantageous, you will have nothing less [sc. than you had before]."[2]
Properly they used to call "relearning" [the process of] learning something else afterwards, abandoning the first [knowledge].
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "might you not relearn? Might you not give me Wealth himself and the silphium of Battus?"[3]
"And, being a Hebrew, he repented of [adopting] the impiety of the Assyrians". [4] Meaning he changed.
Metamathein: metagnônai. pausasthai. Agathias: humeis de omômokotes anedên parespondêsate. all' eige kai nun ethelêsoite metamathein to sunoison, ouden ti elatton hexete. kuriôs de metamathein elegon to meta tauta heteron ti mathein, aphemenon tou prôtou. Aristophanês Ploutôi: oud' an metamathois; oud' an moi doiês ge ton Plouton auton kai to Battou silphion. kai metemathen Hebraios ôn tên tôn Assuriôn dussebeian. anti tou êllaxato.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica: see the references at
Photius mu322 Theodoridis. The headword is aorist infinitive of
metamanqa/nw. It is presumably quoted from somewhere, though not necessarily from the
Agathias quotation given below (which the other lexica do not have).
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 1.13. The Byzantine general Narses (cf.
nu 42 generally), hoping to avoid a direct assault on the city, bargains with the citizens of
Luca (modern-day
Lucca, Italy; cf.
alpha 457 note) in late 553 CE. See also
alpha 1709,
beta 495, and Frendo (20-21).
[3]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 924, with scholion; cf.
mu 42. For 'the silphium of Battus' cf.
beta 186,
beta 187.
[4] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable.
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 July 2009@19:51:16.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 2 July 2009@04:00:21.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 17 May 2013@07:32:57.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 18 May 2013@23:58:33.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 27 June 2020@23:10:58.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 17 August 2020@01:09:27.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 8 October 2023@11:13:59.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 8 October 2023@23:45:59.
Ronald Allen (better wording n.2) on 9 October 2023@11:23:44.
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