Ἐμπίπλη
fill up
Translated by Catharine Roth1 Mar 2007Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Attic [form]: for there was a common [koine] [imperative] from pi/plhmi , pi/plaqi , like i(/staqi . There is also something similar in the Poet: "Cyclops, take [th= ], drink wine."1 For in [verbs] ending with -mi , Attic-speakers do not turn the m into q in the imperatives or shorten the stem vowel as the common dialect [koine] does: i(/sthmi , i(/staqi , but they [say] i(/sth ; [also] pi/plhmi, pi/plaqi . But the Attic-speakers drop the -mi completely, saying pi/plh and e)mpi/plh . Thus also from th=mi [comes] th= , meaning "take."