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Headword: Ai ai
Adler number: alphaiota,91
Translated headword: ai ai!
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"Ai ai! Who ever would have thought that my appellation would provide a name my sufferings this way?" Aias says [this].[1] "And now it is fitting even to cry 'aiai!' twice for me and thrice."[2] This is in the manner of the ancients, the producing of calamities in accordance with the namings [of characters]. If he were doing well he would not have mentioned his name, but only in the midst of calamity.
Greek Original:
Ai ai: ai ai, tis an pot' ôieth' hôd' epônumon toumon xunoisein onoma tois emois kakois; ho Aias phêsin. nun gar paresti kai dis aiazein emoi kai tris. touto archaiotropon esti, to pros tas onomasias ekpherein tas sumphoras. kalôs men oun prattôn ouk an emnêsthê tou onomatos, en sumphorai de ôn.
Notes:
cf. alphaiota 1.
[1] Sophocles, Ajax 430-431 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; cf. delta 1701.
[2] Sophocles, Ajax 432-433 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; mythology; poetry; stagecraft; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 May 2003@11:02:40.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added x-ref; cosmetics) on 23 May 2003@03:39:29.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 11 May 2012@07:46:38.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 12 May 2012@01:37:21.

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