ἐν παραβύστῳ

ἐν παραβύστῳ

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /en pa.ra.býs.tɔːi̯/ → /en pa.raˈβys.to/ → /en pa.raˈvis.to/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /en pa.ra.býs.tɔːi̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɛn pa.raˈbys.to/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /en pa.raˈβys.to/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /en pa.raˈvys.to/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /en pa.raˈvis.to/

Prepositional phrase

ἐν πᾰρᾰβύστῳ • (en parabústōi)

1. sneakily, on the sly, in a hole-and-corner
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 47:

     οὐκ εἰς τὴν βουλήν, οὐκ εἰς τὸν δῆμον εἰπὼν περὶ τούτων οὐδέν, ἐν παραβύστῳ, τῆς βουλῆς μὲν ἀφειμένης, τῶν δ᾽ ἄλλων διὰ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἱερομηνίαν ἀγόντων, λάθρα τὸν νόμον εἰσήνεγκεν.

     ouk eis tḕn boulḗn, ouk eis tòn dêmon eipṑn perì toútōn oudén, en parabústōi, tês boulês mèn apheiménēs, tôn d᾽ állōn dià tḕn heortḕn hieromēnían agóntōn, láthra tòn nómon eisḗnenken.

     [Timocrates ...] without laying any proposition before the Council or before the Assembly, on the sly, when the Council stood adjourned, and everybody was holiday-making in honor of the festival, he brought in his bill surreptitiously.

     English translation (1939) by A. T. Murray. @perseus.tuftus.edu

   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Topics 157a:(VIII)

     Διὸ καὶ λανθάνουσιν ἐνίοτε οἱ ἐρωτῶντες ἐν παραβύστῳ προστιθέντες ἃ καθ´ αὑτὰ προτεινόμενα οὐκ ἂν τεθείη.

     Diò kaì lanthánousin eníote hoi erōtôntes en parabústōi prostithéntes hà kath´ hautà proteinómena ouk àn tetheíē.

     That is why, the ones who ask questions are occasionaly not detected, by sneakily adding propositions which would not stand separately.

Descendants

• → Greek: εν παραβύστω (en paravýsto)

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Greek

Prepositional phrase

ἐν παραβύστῳ • (en paravýsto)

1. Polytonic form of εν παραβύστω (en parabústō)