Re: The Swallow Song

Justin Mansfield wrote:

[Thanks for the info on the dialect situation!]

>     Pheu, pheu, talais! All these wonderful food words for me to
> reasearch... [...]
>     It's a shame too, because some of you might want to know exactly
> what those food items are before you try to translate!
I based mine partly on the Middle Liddel-Scott, partly on Constantine
Trypanis's even freer translation.

> >     ouk apo:theîtai.  póter' apío:mes è: labó:metha?
> >     ei mén ti dóseis... ei dè mé:, ouk eásomes
> >     e: tàn thúran phéromes e: toupérthuron
> >     e:  tàn gunaîka tàn éso: kathe:ménan
> >     mikrà mén esti, rhadío:s min oísomes.
> >     all' ei phére:s ti,
> >     méga dé: ti phérois.
>
> Notice that oisomes, phere:s and pherois are all from the same verb.
> Also, it's a matter of taste I suppose, but I would have transcribed the
> iota subscript- rha:idio:s.
Yeah, I know.  I prefer freer translations than more scholarly ones,
but then perhaps that's why I'm going to graduate school in linguistics
rather than Classics (much as I love the latter).

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

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