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Headword:
Aith'
opheles
thanein
ê
panustaton
orchêsasthai
Adler number: alphaiota,137
Translated headword: if only you had died or danced for the very last time
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. This is said] because they lead the owl around when they take her children; and she, not having sight during the day, dances, so to speak. Or when she is dying from a blow she turns about as though she were dancing.
Callimachus speaks of her in
Hecale.
Aith' opheles thanein ê panustaton orchêsasthai: epeidê tên glauka hotan labôsi ta paidia periagousin: hê de mê blepousa di' hêmeras hôsper orcheitai. ê hotan plêgêi teleutôsa strephetai hôsper orchoumenê. Kallimachos en Hekalêi legei peri autês.
Notes:
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 326, with scholion. (The third word of the original must be
qane/ein for metrical reasons; and
h)\ panu/staton is regarded as corrupt.)
For 'if only you had' cf.
alphaiota 136.
Keywords: imagery; medicine; meter and music; mythology; poetry; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 May 2003@21:39:44.
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