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Headword: Didaxomai
Adler number: delta,857
Translated headword: I will learn
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "but by praying to the gods I will learn." Instead of didaxqh/somai.[1] In this instance it should be understood passively, that is I will be taught. It is [one] of the middles, for it has a passive form, but its meaning is active. For he might say, "I will have my son taught [dida/comai (middle voice)] philosophy," more correctly than "I will teach" [dida/cw (active voice)]. For the teacher will say dida/cw, but the father [will say] dida/comai and [so too will] anyone who sends another to learn. So in this instance it can be the same, so that it is understood "I will send to school – if not my son, then myself." Since the meter did not allow him to say e)mauto\n dida/cas ["teaching myself"], he said "going myself into the think-shop."
Greek Original:
Didaxomai: Aristophanês Nephelais: all' euxamenos tois theoisin didaxomai. anti tou didachthêsomai. nun men pathêtikôs apodekteon, toutesti didachthêsomai. esti de tôn mesôn, pathêtikon men gar echei ton schêmatismon, energeian de dêloi. eipoi gar an didaxomai ton huion philosophein kuriôteron ê didaxô. didaxô men gar ho didaskalos erei, didaxomai de ho patêr kai pas ho paradidous heteron manthanein. dunaton oun kai nun men einai to auto: hin' êi nooumenon, didaxomai, epei ou ton huion, emauton. tou metrou ouk epitrepontos eipein emauton didaxas, ephê autos badizôn eis to phrontistêrion.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Clouds 127 (web address 1), and scholia. See also epsilon 232.
[1] That is, the future middle is being used in the sense of the future passive. The scholion continues with a possible explanation of the usage in this passage of Aristophanes.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; meter and music; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 April 2004@01:46:25.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (x-ref; another keyword; cosmetics) on 25 April 2004@05:41:43.
Catharine Roth on 25 April 2004@16:19:53.
Catharine Roth (added note) on 25 April 2004@16:22:38.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 23 July 2011@20:56:08.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 3 July 2012@08:32:54.

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