"That man [was putting to rights] the [sc. political?] situation".[1]
Pluperfect.[2]
*diw/rqou e)kei=nos ta\ pra/gmata. u(persunteliko/s.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable (but probably a work of history).
[2] Untrue: this is the imperfect, the third person singular, of
diorqo/w (cf.
delta 1196). A drastic intervention to delete this secondary gloss (in the margin of ms.I)
u(persunteliko\s or any attempt to modify the text (such as a correction to
u(pe\r sunteli/as or
u(pe\r sunta/xews; cf. Gaisford’s notes) would be unwarranted. The Suda provides other instances of a similar misinterpretation: an imperfect is classified as a pluperfect in
epsilon 2503,
eta 37,
iota 160; a perfect imperative in
epsilon 1849; an aorist infinitive in
alphaiota 323.
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