Tuesday 29 October 2013

The usual sorts of things

From tidying up some scraps of paper:
(1) a mistake in a Loeb: Aeschin.2.78 has ἀπολόψειν (*λόπτω/*λόψω/*λόφω) not the required ἀποκόψειν;

(2) a plural of a personal name: LSJ s.v. Πήγασος 'pl. Πήγασοι, as a sample of prodigies, Pl.Phdr.229d, cf. Cic.Pro Quinct.25.80, Plin. HN8.72, 10.136'; 

(3) an example of a counter-factual conditional sentence: Pl.Phd.107c-d εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἦν ὁ θάνατος τοῦ παντὸς ἀπαλλαγή, ἕρμαιον ἂν ἦν τοῖς κακοῖς ἀποθανοῦσι τοῦ τε σώματος ἅμ’ ἀπηλλάχθαι καὶ τῆς αὑτῶν κακίας μετὰ τῆς ψυχῆς· νῦν δ’ ἐπειδὴ ἀθάνατος φαίνεται οὖσα, οὐδεμία ἂνεἴη αὐτῇ ἄλλη ἀποφυγὴ κακῶν οὐδὲ σωτηρία πλὴν τοῦ ὡς βελτίστην τε καὶ φρονιμωτάτην γενέσθαι.

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