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Headword:
Prosesthai
Adler number: pi,2648
Translated headword: to have let come to, to have admitted, to have accepted
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "but that he is silent and mutters nothing, this is not possible for me to have accepted."[1]
And elsewhere
Aelian [writes]: "but she did not accept the gift, maintaining it to be a courtesan's fee to betray herself to an unknown man and to give away her beauty as if it were an item on sale."[2]
And elsewhere: "...so as no longer to admit him into [his] company."[3]
Greek Original:Prosesthai: Aristophanês: all' hoti sigai kouden gruzei, tout' ou dunatai me prosesthai. ephelkusasthai. kai authis Ailianos: hê de ou proseito tên dosin, hetairikon phaskousa einai misthôma to heautên paraballein andri agnôti kai hôsper ônion to kallos apodosthai. kai authis: hôste mêketi auton prosesthai eis homilian.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the first quotation given, is the aorist middle infinitive of the verb
prosi/hmi,
I admit; see generally LSJ s.v.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 741-2 (web address 1), with
scholia. Bdelycleon ("Loathes-Kleon") expresses to the chorus displeasure with his petulant father Philocleon ("Loves-Kleon"). For Kleon (Develin person no. 1659) see OCD4 s.v. Cleon, and
kappa 1731.
[2]
Aelian fr.12 Hercher (12b Domingo-Forasté, pp. 23-4); cf.
alpha 287,
mu 1123, and
pi 274. The reluctant woman is Monime of Miletus (Barrington Atlas map 61 grid E2); cf.
mu 490 note and
mu 1060.
[3]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.228 Zintzen (134 Asmus - so, tentatively, Adler). It refers to the moment when the Syrian philosopher and mathematician Domninus (c.414 - c.485; cf.
delta 1355 end and PLRE s.v. Domninus 4) rebuffed the mathematically brash Asklepiodotos (cf.
alpha 4174 and PLRE s.v.
Asclepiodotus 3).
R. Develin, Athenian Officials 684-321 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
D. Domingo-Forasté, ed., Clavdii Aeliani: Epistvlae et Fragmenta, Teubner: Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1994
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980
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Translated by: Ronald Allen on 17 September 2008@03:31:43.
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