Sunday, August 04, 2024
A Threatening Hand Gesture
Plutarch, Life of Timoleon 11.2 (tr. Ian Scott-Kilvert):
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Finally he stretched out his hand with the palm upwards, and then, turning it downwards, declared that he would overturn the city in the same way.ἠπείλησε is stronger than declared: see Liddell-Scott-Jones, s.v. ἀπειλέω, sense II = threaten.
τέλος ὑπτίαν τὴν χεῖρα δείξας, εἶτ᾽ αὖθις καταστρέψας ἠπείλησε τοιαύτην οὖσαν αὐτῷ τὴν πόλιν τοιαύτην ποιήσειν.
