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Headword:
Ξυγγράψαι
Adler number: xi,89
Translated headword: to compose
Vetting Status: high
Translation: and to write. To write [γράψαι ] refers to a single matter, to compose [συγγράψαι ] to several. Alternatively, συγγράψαι is to arrange with care and seriously, γράψαι to find the truth simply and not effortfully.
Greek Original:Ξυγγράψαι καὶ Γράψαι: τὸ μὲν γράψαι ἐφ' ἑνὸς πράγματος, τὸ δὲ ξυγγράψαι ἐπὶ πολλῶν. ἢ ξυγγράψαι, τὸ μετ' ἐπιμελείας καὶ σπουδαίως συντάξαι, γράψαι δὲ τὸ ἁπλῶς καὶ μὴ ἐπιμελῶς τὴν ἀλήθειαν εὑρεῖν.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.1.1, where the historian begins his work by saying that he 'composed' (
ξυνέγραψε ) it (web address 1).
In Greek, the distinctions drawn by the scholiast are those between two variants, simple and compound, of the same verb.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica † on 17 February 2000@14:40:00.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (supplied headword; added notes and keyword) on 6 July 2001@03:49:33.
Catharine Roth (added link) on 6 July 2001@18:08:36.
David Whitehead (internal rearrangement; betacoding and other cosmetics; raised status) on 11 September 2007@09:47:26.
Catharine Roth (betacode typo) on 16 September 2007@11:18:49.
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