Δρᾶ
get done!
Translated by Robert Dyer6 Mar 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Meaning "do!" In the imperative. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "you now get the other things done yourself!"1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δρᾶ· ἀντὶ τοῦ πράττε· προστακτικῶς. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι· σὺ δ' αὐτὸς ἤδη τἄλλα δρᾶ.
Betacode
*dra=: a)nti\ tou= pra/tte: prostaktikw=s. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi: su\ d' au)to\s h)/dh ta)/lla dra=.
Notes
- [1] Aristophanes Birds 1163, with comments from the scholia. The headword is present imperative active, as is the gloss. The translation at web address 1 is, more colloquially but accurately (cf. delta 1488), "The rest is your business." See also delta 1507, delta 1510.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from6 entries
- δ1488Δρᾷacts[Meaning he/she/it] does. Or will furnish.
- δ1498Δρᾶμαact, drama[Meaning a] thing done, deed. As also to act [means] to do. Drama means also the things done in imitation by theatre-people [= actors] as in playing a speaking part [? = declaiming]. But he planned "to deceive with a…
- δ1507Δράσαςhaving acted (decisively)[Meaning he] having done. Also [sc. attested is the aorist infinitive] dra=sai ["to have acted/to act (once)"].
- δ1508Δρασείειςyou wish to do[Meaning] you have it in mind to do. "O Zeus, what do you wish to do, longingly, to the people?" Aristophanes [says this]. Also [sc. attested is the participle] drasei/ontes, [meaning they] desiring to do something.
- δ1511Δρᾶσονdo! , get it done!Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "but do you know what [to] do?" In Attic [dialect]. "Hit the rock with your leg!"
- δ1536Δρώμενα(things) being done[Meaning ones] being performed, being accomplished. Also [sc. attested is] drwme/nwn, [meaning] of [things] being performed.
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Revision history5 revisions · last 11 Sep 2013
- modified note — William Hutton
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added cross-references, raised status — Catharine Roth
- added keyword — David Whitehead
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Robert Dyer