ἰδού
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1238] als adv., sieh, sieh da! wenn man Einem Etwas darreicht, ἰδοὺ δέχου παῖ Soph. Phil. 765; vgl. Ar. Pax init., wo der Aufforderung αἶρ' αἶρε μᾶζαν entspricht ἰδού, da hast du es, u. δὸς μᾶζαν ἑτέραν, ἰδοὺ μάλ' αὖθις; vgl. φέρ' ἴδω, τί ἄρ' ἔνεστιν αὐτόθι · δός μοι τὸ ποτήριον, ἰδού Ar. Equ. 121; – ἰδού, θεᾶσθε πάντες Soph. Tr. 1068; ἰδοὺ ὑμῖν, ἐμπλήσθητε τοῦ καλοῦ θεάματος Plat. Rep. IV, 440 a; – ein einzelnes Wort höhnisch hervorhebend; Ar. Equ. 85 sagt Einer μὰ Δί' ἀλλ' ἄκρατον οἶνον, worauf der Andere bemerkt ἰδού γ' ἄκρατον, ei sieh doch reinen Wein! Nub. 873 Par 196 u. öfter bei Ar. u. a. Comic.
French (Bailly abrégé)
interj.
voici, voilà :
1 pour offrir ou recevoir qch ἰδού δέχου, παῖ SOPH voilà ! prends, mon enfant;
2 pour avertir ἰδού, θεᾶσθε πάντες SOPH tenez ! regardez, tous ! ἰδού, δοῦπον αὖ κλύω τινά SOPH voici que j’entends encore un bruit.
Étymologie: cf. ἰδοῦ.
English (Abbott-Smith)
ἰδού, [in LXX chiefly for הִנֵּה,] prop. imperat. 2 aor. mid. of ὁράω, used as a demonstrative particle, with frequency much greater in LXX and NT than in cl. (v. M, Pr., 11),
lo, behold, see: Mt 10:16 11:8 13:3, Mk 3:32, Lk 2:48, I Co 15:51, Ja 5:9, Ju 14, Re 1:7, al.; after gen. absol., Mt 1:20 2:1, 13 12:46, al.; καὶ ἰδού, Mt 2:9 (and freq.), Lk 1:20 10:25, Ac 12:7, al.; in elliptical sentences, taking the place of copula or predicate (like הִנֵּה in Heb.), Mt 3:17, Lk 5:12 22:31, 47 Ac 8:27, 36 al.
