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Headword: *)alla\ tau=ta me\n r(ei/tw kat' ou)=ron
Adler number: alpha,1084
Translated headword: but let these things flow on a fair wind
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
["But let these things flow on a fair wind;] to you, though, I say be bad to others, but to me always avoid untruths."
Greek Original:
*)alla\ tau=ta me\n r(ei/tw kat' ou)=ron soi\ d' e)gw\ fra/zw kako\n pro\s a)/llon ei)=nai, pro\s de/ m' a)yeudei=n a)ei/.
Note:
Headword-phrase and "gloss" alike come from Sophocles, Trachiniae 467-469 (web address 1); cf. omicron 953. The "you" addressed, as Deianeira refocuses her attention on the immediate situation, is Lichas the herald.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: ethics; imagery; poetry; tragedy; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 November 2000@00:27:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (recast headword and translation; augmented note) on 8 November 2000@07:18:17.
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 10 June 2002@08:40:58.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 3 February 2012@03:52:54.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 18 April 2012@01:41:52.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 15 August 2013@00:05:25.
David Whitehead on 26 May 2015@10:55:11.

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