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Headword:
Prosepoiêthê
Adler number: pi,2642
Translated headword: pretended
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "He was angry at being rejected; nevertheless for the time being he pretended not to be."[1] Meaning revealed, demonstrated.
Damaskios [also writes]: "so he perceived that we were in such a situation; nevertheless he pretended not to notice."[2]
And elsewhere: "although often hearing, he used to pretend not to."[3]
Greek Original:Prosepoiêthê: ho de ôrgizeto men athetêtheis, ou mên prosepoiêthê kata to paron. anti tou ephanerôsen, enedeixato. Damaskios: êisthaneto men oun hêmôn tautêi pê diakeimenôn, ou mentoi prosepoiêthê ton noun prosechein. kai authis: ho de pollakis akouôn ou prosepoieito.
Notes:
The headword -- illustrated by the first and second quotations given -- is aorist passive of
prospoie/w, third person singular. This verb in the middle (and aorist passive) with a negative means "pretend the contrary" (LSJ s.v. A.II.5). See also
pi 2643,
pi 2797.
[1]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.148 Zintzen.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.52 Zintzen (299 Asmus).
[3] Claimed as another fragment of
Damascius by Zintzen (fr. 203), and Asmus before him, but actually from the
scholia to
u(po/kwfon in
Aristophanes,
Knights 43. See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.C.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 December 2005@00:40:54.
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