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Headword:
Paristasai
Adler number: pi,657
Translated headword: you impose yourself
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] you enslave and you make subject. Or meaning you uproot.
Sophocles [writes]: "you take what you want, and you impose yourself by force, and you think my city is is void of men or some slave-city."[1] They were accustomed to speak in this way; and to mean 'they put to flight' we would say 'they uprooted'; but they [would say] 'they imposed themselves'.[2]
Greek Original:Paristasai: katadoulois kai hupocheirion poieis. ê anti tou methistasai. Sophoklês: ageis th', ha chrêizeis, kai paristasai biai, kai moi polin kenandron ê doulên tina edoxas einai. eiôthesan de houtô legein: kai anti tou ephugadeusan hêmeis an eipoimen, metestêsanto: hoi de parestêsanto.
Notes:
The headword (extracted from the quotation given) is present indicative middle, second person singular, of
pari/sthmi. For the primary sense of it illustrated here, see LSJ s.v., C.II.1 (web address 1: citing the present instance amongst others); but see further below.
For other forms of the same verb see
pi 441 to
pi 444,
pi 447,
pi 448,
pi 658 and
pi 659.
[1] Theseus to Kreon in
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 916-918 (web address 2), with comments derived from the
scholia.
[2] This sense of the headword verb (already anticipated above) is not clearly attested elsewhere and may be an incorrect extrapolation from the Sophoclean context.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; military affairs; mythology; poetry; politics; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 15 August 2011@12:05:54.
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