[Used] with an accusative.[1] [Meaning] to change one's mind, to alter one's view of the just and the proper.[2]
Or to consider one's own weakness and the strength of those opposed.[3]
"Therefore most challenged their own opinions and changed their minds."[4]
Arrian [writes]: "if somehow Chosroes challenged his own opinion and submitted to the just expectations [emanating] from the Romans."[5]
*gnwsimaxh=sai: ai)tiatikh=|. metanoh=sai, metagnw=nai to\ di/kaion kai\ pre/pon. h)\ to\ gnw=nai th\n e(autou= a)sqe/neian kai\ tw=n e)nanti/wn th\n i)sxu/n. ou)kou=n oi( plei=stoi e)gnwsima/xoun kai\ meteba/llonto. *)arriano/s: ei)/ ph| *xosro/hs gnwsimaxh/sas u(podu/setai toi=s e)k *(rwmai/wn cu\n di/kh| a)cioume/nois.
A rare but fascinating verb, which began life in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE with the meaning given here (
Herodotus,
Euripides,
Aristophanes,
Isocrates) but took on in parallel, during the Christian era, a precisely opposite one: to stick argumentatively to one's own opinion. See in brief LSJ s.v.
[1] Much more commonly intransitive, in fact.
[2] These glosses, also in other lexica, use the aorist infinitive, to correspond with the headword itself (which is evidently quoted from somewhere).
[3] Another aorist infinitive, this time from Herodotean glosses.
[4] cf.
alpha 2127.
[5] Arrian,
Parthica fr. 33 Roos-Wirth (FGrH 156 F126). For Chosroes see
chi 418.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 18 July 2002@03:59:13.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 28 January 2005@05:16:40.
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