Αἱρῇ

you choose

Translated by Catharine Roth5 Mar 2003Vetting: high4 revisions

10 words

[Meaning] you wish. "Since you yourself choose to speak [...]."

Greek original · Adler’s text

Αἱρῇ· βούλει. ἐπείπερ αὐτὸς αἱρῇ λέγειν.

Betacode

*ai(rh=|: bou/lei. e)pei/per au)to\s ai(rh=| le/gein.

Aristophanes, Acharnians 494, with scholion. (But Aristophanes has the imperative le/ge -- "since you yourself choose, speak!" -- rather than the infinitive le/gein (also in ps.-Zonaras). See web address 1.)