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Headword:
*pai/swmen
met'
au)th=s
Adler number: pi,896
Translated headword: [so that] we may play with her
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning so that] we may join in the dance with her.[1]
And elsewhere: "and the queen sought for there to be wedding gifts, [sc. saying, in accordance with]
Menander's [phrase], 'so that I also may play some game', -- she herself being a 'Trikorysian queen',[2] wishing to be mistress of the sea."[3]
*pai/swmen met' au)th=s: sugxoreu/swmen au)th=|. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ e(/dna h)/|tei gene/sqai basili/s, to\ tou= *mena/ndrou, i(/na ti kai\ pai/sw, *trikorusi/a basi/linna kai\ au(/th, de/spoina ei)=nai tou= po/ntou e)qe/lousa.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Birds 660 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
epsilon 378.
[2]
Menander (the comic poet) fr. 907 Kock, 652a Koerte, now 886 K.-A.
[3]
Aelian fr. 12d Domingo-Forasté (part of fr. 12 Hercher); quoted again at
tau 984, where Adler capitalizes
Pontos (either the territory or the Black Sea).
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Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; geography; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 April 2011@01:21:33.
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