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Headword:
*swmatopoih=sai
Adler number: sigma,842
Translated headword: to corroborate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "He asserted that it was necessary not to let the enemy out of their grasp nor to corroborate their daring by shunning battle."[1] "Seizing a slim hope from the besieged he was corroborating it."[2]
And elsewhere
Polybius [writes]: "like a concerned friend he engaged in every intrigue through which he might corroborate the enemy's fortunes and surround their own affairs with the greatest dangers."[3]
*swmatopoih=sai, o( de\ e)/faske dei=n mh\ proi/+esqai tou\s e)xqrou\s e)k tw=n xeirw=n mhde\ swmatopoiei=n th\n to/lman au)tw=n fugomaxou=ntas. o( de\ braxei/as e)pilabo/menos e)lpi/dos e)k tw=n poliorkoume/nwn e)swmatopoi/ei tau/thn. kai\ au)=qis *polu/bios: o( de\ w(s khdemoniko\s fi/los pa=n e)mhxana=to, di' ou(= ta\ tw=n e)xqrw=n swmatopoih/sei, toi=s de\ sfete/rois pra/gmasi peristh/sei tou\s megi/stous kindu/nous.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is the aorist active infinitive of the verb
swmatopoie/w. (For other forms of it see
sigma 839,
sigma 840,
sigma 841.) It is presumably extracted from a literary source, although not from the quotations given, in which other forms of the verb occur (respectively: present active infinitive, imperfect active indicative third person singular, and future active indicative third person singular). The verb is a favorite of
Polybius (hence, inter alia, the presumption of
Polybius as a source for the quotations), so a possible source for the headword itself is
Polybius 21.23.1.
[1]
Polybius fr. 230 Büttner-Wobst; transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. Büttner-Wobst notes (544) that Ursinus (Fulvio Orsini, 1529-1600) attributed this fragment and the next (cf. n.2) to
Polybius.
[2]
Polybius fr. 231 Büttner-Wobst; transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.
[3]
Polybius fr. 80 Büttner-Wobst.
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 16 March 2014@12:34:01.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (set status) on 16 March 2014@23:33:04.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking; raised status) on 17 March 2014@04:44:59.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography) on 23 June 2019@22:51:58.
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