Αὐτῷ στεφάνῳ
crown and all, garland and all
Translated by Jennifer Benedict · 7 Aug 2001 · Vetting: high · 8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] with the crown itself. "So that each man, drunk, can take a torch and depart, crown and all."1
Greek original
Αὐτῷ στεφάνῳ· σὺν αὐτῷ τῷ στεφάνῳ. ὥστε μεθυσθεὶς αὐτῷ στεφάνῳ πᾶς τις ἄπεισι τὴν δᾷδα λαβών.
Betacode
*au)tw=| stefa/nw|: su\n au)tw=| tw=| stefa/nw|. w(/ste mequsqei\s au)tw=| stefa/nw| pa=s tis a)/peisi th\n da=|da labw/n.
Notes
- [1] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 691-2 (see web address 1 below, and a longer extract at kappa 1786), preceded by comment from the scholia there. The happy drunkard envisaged by Praxagora here had put on his "crown" at the start of a party. For the idiom cf. alpha 4540.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from (1)
Neighbours in Adler order
Revisions (8)
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