Is the phrase “τυγχάνει συντελείας” rendered as “bring to completion” in the below text? Is the most literal rendering of the word τυγχάνω “reach; arrive at” rather than “bring to”? In the text, the word seems to be used in the active rather than passive voice.
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, book 1, chapter 4, section 2: “ἀφορμῇ δὲ πρὸς τὴν ἐπιβολὴν ταύτην ἐχρησάμεθα μάλιστα μὲν τῇ πρὸς τὴν πραγματείαν ἐπιθυμίᾳ, δι᾿ ἣν πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις τὸ δοκοῦν ἄπορον εἶναι τυγχάνει συντελείας, ἔπειτα καὶ τῇ ἐν Ῥώμῃ χορηγίᾳ τῶν πρὸς τὴν ὑποκειμένην ὑπόθεσιν ἀνηκόντων.”
Loeb Classical Library, C. H. Oldfather’s translation, volume 1: “As for the resources which have availed us in this undertaking, they have been, first and foremost, that enthusiasm for the work which enables every man to bring to completion the task which seems impossible, and, in the second place, the abundant supply which Rome affords of the materials pertaining to the proposed study.”
Translation of the Phrase Τυγχάνει Συντελείας
Discussion of Greek texts that do not fall into the other categories, including texts in other dialects or texts from other periods.
Forum rules
This is not a beginner's forum, competence in Greek is assumed.
This is not a beginner's forum, competence in Greek is assumed.
-
- Posts: 111
- Joined: May 20th, 2017, 11:23 am
Jump to
- Announcements, Questions, and Policies
- ↳ Announcements
- ↳ Policies
- ↳ Questions
- ↳ Tips from users
- Introductions
- Greek Texts
- ↳ New Testament
- ↳ Galatians Reading Group
- ↳ Galatians 1
- ↳ Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
- ↳ Series on Isaiah
- ↳ Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- ↳ Koine Greek Texts
- ↳ Other Greek Texts
- Greek Language and Linguistics
- ↳ Syntax and Grammar
- ↳ Word Meanings
- ↳ Other
- ↳ Pragmatics and Discourse
- ↳ The Verb in Koine Greek
- Teaching and Learning Greek
- ↳ Teaching Methods
- ↳ Resources
- ↳ Pronunciation
- ↳ Other
- Beginners Forum
- ↳ Alphabet and Pronunciation
- ↳ Learning Paradigms
- ↳ Vocabulary
- ↳ Textbooks
- ↳ What does this text mean?
- ↳ Writing Greek
- ↳ Other
- ↳ Grammar Questions
- ↳ Teacher's Lounge
- ↳ Classroom
- ↳ Alphabet and Pronunciation
- ↳ John
- ↳ Chat
- Books
- ↳ Lexicons
- ↳ Grammars
- ↳ Reading Guides
- ↳ History, Culture, and Background
- ↳ Campbell: Advances in the Study of Greek
- ↳ Other
- Software
- ↳ Bible Study Software
- ↳ Unicode and Fonts
- ↳ Other
- Cool Stuff
- ↳ Seen on the Web
- ↳ Events
- ↳ Other
- Projects
- ↳ biblicalhumanities.org
- ↳ Polytonic Greek OCR
- Writing in Greek
- ↳ Teaching Greek Composition
- ↳ Composition based on ancient texts
- ↳ The modern world
- ↳ Chatter
- ↳ Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
- Other