Διδάξομαι
I will learn
Translated by Catharine Roth25 Apr 2004Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "but by praying to the gods I will learn." Instead of didaxqh/somai .1 In this instance it should be understood passively, that is I will be taught. It is [one] of the middles, for it has a passive form, but its meaning is active. For he might say, "I will have my son taught [dida/comai (middle voice)] philosophy," more correctly than "I will teach" [dida/cw (active voice)]. For the teacher will say dida/cw , but the father [will say] dida/comai and [so too will] anyone who sends another to learn. So in this instance it can be the same, so that it is understood "I will send to school – if not my son, then myself." Since the meter did not allow him to say e)mauto\n dida/cas ["teaching myself"], he said "going myself into the think-shop."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Διδάξομαι· Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· ἀλλ' εὐξάμενος τοῖς θεοῖσιν διδάξομαι. ἀντὶ τοῦ διδαχθήσομαι. νῦν μὲν παθητικῶς ἀποδεκτέον, τουτέστι διδαχθήσομαι. ἔστι δὲ τῶν μέσων, παθητικὸν μὲν γὰρ ἔχει τὸν σχηματισμόν, ἐνέργειαν δὲ δηλοῖ. εἴποι γὰρ ἂν διδάξομαι τὸν υἱὸν φιλοσοφεῖν κυριώτερον ἢ διδάξω. διδάξω μὲν γὰρ ὁ διδάσκαλος ἐρεῖ, διδάξομαι δὲ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ πᾶς ὁ παραδιδοὺς ἕτερον μανθάνειν. δυνατὸν οὖν καὶ νῦν μὲν εἶναι τὸ αὐτό· ἵν' ᾖ νοούμενον, διδάξομαι, ἐπεὶ οὐ τὸν υἱόν, ἐμαυτόν. τοῦ μέτρου οὐκ ἐπιτρέποντος εἰπεῖν ἐμαυτὸν διδάξας, ἔφη αὐτὸς βαδίζων εἰς τὸ φροντιστήριον.
Betacode
*dida/comai: *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: a)ll' eu)ca/menos toi=s qeoi=sin dida/comai. a)nti\ tou= didaxqh/somai. nu=n me\n paqhtikw=s a)podekte/on, toute/sti didaxqh/somai. e)/sti de\ tw=n me/swn, paqhtiko\n me\n ga\r e)/xei to\n sxhmatismo/n, e)ne/rgeian de\ dhloi=. ei)/poi ga\r a)\n dida/comai to\n ui(o\n filosofei=n kuriw/teron h)\ dida/cw. dida/cw me\n ga\r o( dida/skalos e)rei=, dida/comai de\ o( path\r kai\ pa=s o( paradidou\s e(/teron manqa/nein. dunato\n ou)=n kai\ nu=n me\n ei)=nai to\ au)to/: i(/n' h)=| noou/menon, dida/comai, e)pei\ ou) to\n ui(o/n, e)mauto/n. tou= me/trou ou)k e)pitre/pontos ei)pei=n e)mauto\n dida/cas, e)/fh au)to\s badi/zwn ei)s to\ frontisth/rion.
Notes (1)
- Aristophanes, Clouds 127 (web address 1), and scholia. See also epsilon 232.↩
- 1That is, the future middle is being used in the sense of the future passive. The scholion continues with a possible explanation of the usage in this passage of Aristophanes.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- δ122ΔαίωI learn[dai/w is] the [verb which means the same as] manqa/nw. [Future] dai/sw, [whence] dai/+skw, and by dropping the iota da/skw (since the words in common use which end in -kw do not tend to have a diphthong); with…
- δ856Διδαξάμενοςhaving [someone] taught[Meaning] completing something on behalf of another for a teacher.
- ε232ἘδιδαξάμηνI had [someone] taught[Meaning] I had [you] educated by another, after arranging this myself. Passive with active sense. It can also be [an instance] of the middle voice in Attic, meaning "I educated [someone]".
- ε233Ἐδίδαξενtaught[Meaning he/she/it] persuaded, provoked. "Necessity taught them to encamp in the first place where they saw villages."
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Revision history5 revisions · last 3 Jul 2012
- another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- added note — Catharine Roth
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- x-ref; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth