[Meaning] they supposed, they imagined.
Josephus [writes]: "for they presumed from his appearance that he [would] not deny any of the things that were suspected, but that he had done it all in order to obtain pardon."[1]
*proseilh/fesan: u(pe/labon, e)neno/hsan. *)iw/shpos: proseilh/fesan ga\r e)k tou= sxh/matos mhde\n au)to\n a)rnh/sasqai tw=n u(ponohqe/ntwn, a)ll' e)pi\ suggnw/mhs porismw=| pa/nta pepoihke/nai.
Parallel entry in the
Lexicon Vindobonense (pi36). The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given; but see further, next note.
[1] An approximation of
Josephus,
Jewish War 2.603 (transmitted, in Adler's estimation, via the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus). This version of the passage not only has an aorist infinitive
a)rnh/sasqai ('to deny') where
Josephus has, properly, a future infinitive (
a)rnh/sesqai); it also presents the headword itself as
proseilh/fesan rather than
proeilh/fesan (the latter implying pre-judgment or pre-supposition). Same error -- and more -- in the Lex.Vind. version.
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