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Headword:
*dh=qen
Adler number: delta,377
Translated headword: indeed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They say [it] like dh/ ["indeed"]; but this has an affectation of truth, but the force of a lie.[1] The -qen is understood as an expletive.
"Sertorius advised they should indeed hand the city over to them."[2]
"Cyrus indeed marched against the Pisidians, and pretended to be waging war on them."[3]
And elsewhere: "he stretched out his hands in supplication indeed."[4]
And elsewhere: "otherwise he had come to rejoice indeed in the government we have."[5]
Greek Original:*dh=qen: w(s dh/ fhsi: tou=to de\ prospoi/hsin a)lhqei/as e)/xei, du/namin de\ yeu/dous. lamba/netai de\ to\ qen w(s paraplhrwmatiko/n. o( de\ *sertw/rios parh/|nei w(s dh=qen au)toi=s paradou=nai th\n po/lin. o( de\ *ku=ros w(s e)pi\ *pisi/das dh=qen e)poreu/eto, e)f' ou(\s strateu/ein proefasi/zeto. kai\ au)=qis: proe/teine ta\s xei=ras i(keteu/wn dh=qen. kai\ au)=qis: a)/llws de\ th=| kaq' h(ma=s politei/a| xai/rein e)qe/lonta dh=qen.
Notes:
[1]
*dh=qen is almost always ironic. See Denniston (below, in the bibliography). Cf. also
scholia to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica 1.998, to
Thucydides 1.92, and to
Sophocles,
Trachiniae 382.
[2] Adler tentatively assigned this quotation to Appian, on no stated (or discernible) basis. Now Favuzzi [see under
alpha 1596] 212-213 finds vocabulary-based grounds for an attribution to John of
Antioch.
[3] A paraphrase of
Xenophon,
Anabasis 1.2.1 (web address 1 below). See also
xi 48 and
pi 1643.
[4] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as a close approximation of
Josephus,
Jewish War 5.318 (immediately followed by the quotation which appears at
kappa 1122). Here Castor is attempting to deceive Titus by a pretense of supplication.
[5] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Menander Protector,
De legationibus 15.
Denniston, J.D. The Greek Particles. Clarendon Press: Oxford. 1970, esp. 264-266
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 December 2003@16:37:08.
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