Δρέπομαι
I harvest
Translated by Catharine Roth21 Mar 2005Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δρέπομαι· γενικῇ· τῶν αὐτῶν σοι λόγων ἐδρεψάμην κἀγώ. αἰτιατικῇ δέ· πονηρὸν πονηρᾶς δόξης καρπὸν δρεπόμενος. καί, τὰ κάλλιστα δρεπόμενος τῆς φιλίας ἄνθη.
Betacode
*dre/pomai: genikh=|: tw=n au)tw=n soi lo/gwn e)dreya/mhn ka)gw/. ai)tiatikh=| de/: ponhro\n ponhra=s do/chs karpo\n drepo/menos. kai/, ta\ ka/llista drepo/menos th=s fili/as a)/nqh.
Notes (3)
- For this verb cf. generally delta 1519, delta 1521, delta 1522.↩
- 1Quotation -- a line of iambic verse -- unidentifiable in this precise form, but cf. generally Gregory of Nazianzus, de vita 129:
ka)nqe/nde ga/r ti tw=n lo/gwn e)dreya/mhn . ↩- 2From Gregory of Nazianzus' speech In Praise of Athanasius (PG 35.1084). ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable.
- 1Quotation -- a line of iambic verse -- unidentifiable in this precise form, but cf. generally Gregory of Nazianzus, de vita 129:
Linked from4 entries
- δ1519Δρέπεταιharvests, is being harvested[Meaning he/she/it] reaps/is being reaped, gathers/is being gathered, plucks from flowers/is being plucked from flowers. "For whom more noble suitors than for the bride, [sc. Helen] daughter of Tyndareus, gathering…
- δ1521Δρέπουharvest![Meaning] gather in! Herodotus [writes]: "stripping off the bark of the trees and harvesting in the leaves, they ate [them]."
- δ1522Δρεφθῆναιto be harvested[Meaning] to be scythed off.
- δ1538ΔρωπακίζωI depilate, I apply a pitch-plaster[Meaning] I gather, I reap. For drwpa/ [are] things harvested [drepta/], [or?] the scythes [dre/pana]. Among us drwpaki/zein [means] to anoint the body with a kind of ointment to make [the skin] smooth from body hairs…
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Revision history4 revisions · last 15 Nov 2015
- my typos; other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- coding, keyword — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth