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*)=h
Adler number: eta,5
Translated headword: I was, he was
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [I was,] for
h)/mhn. Also without the nu.[1]
Aristophanes in
Wealth: "the things I was prepared to hide".[2] Also used in the third person. But it also serves for
h)/mhn as the result of a Homeric resolution of vowels [
e)/hn]: "so I am, if I ever was."[3]
Concerning the conjunction
h)/ ['or, than']. 'Or' is disjunctive, or declarative, or subdisjunctive. It is disjunctive when it connects opposites, for example day or night or "young or old".[4] It is subdisjunctive when it connects different things and does not require a choice between them, for example 'give me gold or silver or precious stones'. It is declarative when, of two things put forth, one is preferred, for example "better to be a poor man on land than a rich man in a ship".[5] Also, "I'd rather [have] a drop of good luck than a jug of brains".[6]
*)=h: a)nti\ tou= h)/mhn. kai\ xwri\s tou= n. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: a(\ kru/ptein h)= pareskeuasme/nos. ti/qetai kai\ e)pi\ tri/tou prosw/pou. o(/ti de\ kai\ e)pi\ tou= h)/mhn e)k th=s *(omhrikh=s diaire/sews: w(\s e)/on, ei)/pot' e)/hnge. peri\ tou= h)\ sunde/smou. h)\ ga\r diazeuktiko/s e)stin h)\ diasafhtiko\s h)\ u(podiazeuktiko/s. kai\ diazeuktiko\s me\n o( ta\ e)nanti/a e)n th=| sunta/cei dii+stw=n: oi(=on, h(me/ra h)\ nu/c: h)\ ne/os h)e\ palaio/s. u(podiazeuktiko\s de/ e)stin o( dia/fora pra/gmata tiqei\s mhde\n e(/teron e)n th=| diaith/sei dii+stw=n: oi(=on, do/s moi xruso\n h)\ a)/rguron h)\ li/qous timi/ous. diasafhtiko\s de/, o(/tan tw=n du/o proteqe/ntwn to\ e(\n a)nairh=tai: oi(=on, krei=sson e)n gh=| pe/nesqai h)\ ploutou=nta plei=n. kai/, qe/lw tu/xhs stalagmo\n h)\ frenw=n pi/qon.
Notes:
[1] See Smyth sections 768 & 771 (web address 1), and cf.
eta 366.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [Plutus] 77 (web address 2), with scholion.
[3]
Homer,
Iliad 11.762 (web address 3).
[4]
Homer,
Iliad 14.108 (web address 4).
[5]
Antiphanes fr. 101 Kock, now 290 K.-A.; cf.
epsilon 1150. This became proverbial: see Tosi (cited under
alpha 378) no.730.
[6] A line from one of the tragedies (fr. 2 Snell) of
Diogenes of
Sinope (
delta 1143).
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 4 December 1999@17:14:03.
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