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Headword:
Parekstênai
Adler number: pi,531
Translated headword: to undergo a change, to go mad
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to be turned aside. "[...] so that also those in the council became speechless and went out of their minds, sympathizing with the agony of the unfortunate ones."[1]
Greek Original:Parekstênai: parektrapênai. hôste kai tous en tôi sunedriôi achaneis genesthai kai parekstênai tais dianoiais, sumpaschontas têi tôn aklêrountôn huperôduniai.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is intransitive aorist infinitive of
pareci/sthmi.
[1]
Polybius fr. 192 Büttner-Wobst; cf.
alpha 897,
upsilon 347. Büttner-Wobst notes that the fragment was attributed to
Polybius by Ursinus and accepted by Schweighäuser (p. 539). Büttner-Wobst (ibid.) further suggests emending the passage to read
tou\s e)n tw=| sunedri/w| (
pa/ntas)
a)xanei=s gene/sqai (
all those in the council became speechless).
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, Teubner: Leipzig, 1904
Keywords: constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; medicine; politics
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 March 2012@23:30:52.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 13 March 2012@04:36:59.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 15 September 2013@04:37:52.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography, cosmeticule, augmented n.1) on 4 May 2018@20:15:24.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 6 June 2021@19:34:05.
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