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Headword:
Parabalein
Adler number: pi,274
Translated headword: to have betrayed, to have given up
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning to have given over. "He sees Melesia[1] and desires her and sends fifteen thousand gold pieces toward persuading[2] her -- and if more were needed, he said he would give [it]; but she did not accept the gift, maintaining that betraying herself to an unknown man and giving away her beauty as if it were an item on sale was [sc. taking] a courtesan's fee."[3]
Greek Original:Parabalein: anti tou paradounai. ho de horai tên Melêsian kai erai autês kai pempei peisôn pentakischilious kai murious autêi chrusous, kai ei pleon edeito, ephato dôsein: hê de ou proseito tên dosin, hetairikon phaskousa einai misthôma to heautên parabalein andri agnôti kai hôsper ônion to kallos apodosthai.
Notes:
The headword is the aorist (and future) active infinitive of the verb
paraba/llw,
I throw beside; see generally LSJ s.v. See also
pi 270,
pi 271,
pi 272,
pi 273,
pi 275,
pi 276,
pi 277,
pi 278,
pi 280,
pi 281, and
pi 513.
[1] The woman referred to was not
Melesia, but rather
a Milesian (i.e. from Miletus: Barrington Atlas map 61 grid E2) named Monime; cf.
mu 490 note and
mu 1060. On this point, Toup cited
Plutarch,
Lucullus 18.3 (so Adler).
[2] Valckenaer emended
pei/swn to
peirw=n "tempting", comparing
peirw=ntos in
Plutarch.
[3]
Aelian fr.12 Hercher (12b Domingo-Forasté, pp. 23-4); cf.
alpha 287,
mu 1123, and
pi 2648.
D. Domingo-Forasté, ed., Clavdii Aeliani: Epistvlae et Fragmenta, Teubner: Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1994
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; women
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 16 September 2008@00:22:32.
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