Ἀγοράσω
I will go to market
Translated by William Hutton30 Oct 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Meaning I will spend time in [the] marketplace. Aristophanes [writes]: "and I will go to market in arms alongside Aristogeiton."1 Meaning I will spend time in the market with Aristogeiton, near Aristogeiton.2 That is,3 "in a myrtle branch we will carry our sword, just like Harmodios and Aristogeiton". For they, having drawn their swords from myrtle branches, struck down the tyrant.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀγοράσω· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐν ἀγορᾷ διατρίψω. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἀγοράσω τ' ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις ἑξῆς Ἀριστογείτονι. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ διατρίψω μετὰ Ἀριστογείτονος, ἐγγὺς Ἀριστογείτονος. τουτέστιν ἐν μυρσίνῳ κλάδῳ τὸ ξίφος φορέσομεν, ὥσπερ Ἁρμόδιος καὶ Ἀριστογείτων. οὗτοι γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν μυρσίνων κλάδων τὰ ξίφη ἀνασπάσαντες τὸν τύραννον κατέβαλον.
Betacode
*)agora/sw: a)nti\ tou= e)n a)gora=| diatri/yw. *)aristofa/nhs: a)gora/sw t' e)n toi=s o(/plois e(ch=s *)aristogei/toni. a)nti\ tou= e)n th=| a)gora=| diatri/yw meta\ *)aristogei/tonos, e)ggu\s *)aristogei/tonos. toute/stin e)n mursi/nw| kla/dw| to\ ci/fos fore/somen, w(/sper *(armo/dios kai\ *)aristogei/twn. ou(=toi ga\r a)po\ tw=n mursi/nwn kla/dwn ta\ ci/fh a)naspa/santes to\n tu/rannon kate/balon.
Notes (3)
- See also epsilon 1384, phi 592.
- 1Aristophanes, Lysistrata 633 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. ↩
- 2On the statues of the tyrannicides (see further, next note) Aristogeiton and Harmodios in the Athenian Agora, see in brief J.M. Camp, The Athenian Agora (London 1986) 38; cf. OCD(4) s.v. Aristogiton (pp.156-7); and at length M.W. Taylor, The Tyrant Slayers (New York 1981) 51-77. ↩
- 3What follows this less-than-apposite opening is a line from one of the skolia (drinking songs) -- best preserved in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.695A-B [15.50 Kaibel] -- which commemorated the assassination of Hipparchos in 514 BCE. See generally M. Ostwald, Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy (Oxford 1969) 121-136. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- α300Ἀγοράζεινto frequent the market-place; to market[Meaning] to buy something and to spend time in [the] marketplace. Aristophanes in Wealth [sc. applies this verb] to what we customarily [say] for to buy. "And to market a dress for his sisters."
- α304Ἀγοράσαιto buy at marketHyperides [sc. uses this] to mean to purchase. They say a)gora/sw, a)gorw= being sub-literate; there are plenty of examples everywhere, but take for instance [one] of Aristophanes, from Aiolosikon: "but hurry, there was…
- ε1384Ἐν μύρτου κλαδὶ τὸ ξίφος κρατήσωin a branch of myrtle I will master my swordAfter throwing their sword in myrtle-bushes Harmodius and Aristogiton slew the tyrant Hipparchus.
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- typo; other tweaking — David Whitehead
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- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; x-refs; more keywords — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- added notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton