Ἐμπλείμην
I would be filled
Translated by Catharine Roth14 Mar 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Meaning I would be sated. Aristophanes [writes] in Acharnians: "I would not be filled with throwing rocks at him." He has hit on an optative inflexion. For [the verb] is e)mpiplw= , which is inflected with reduplication -- from which a derivative [is] e)mpi/plhmi .1 From this comes [pimpla=si ] "[the fish] fill the recesses of the sheltering harbor."2 This [comes] with another derivative, from which [is] plh/qw , as from nw= ["I swim"] [comes] nh/qw . And indeed from plw= [the optative is] plei/mhn , as from blw= [the optative is] blei/mhn . Of this the second person [is blei=o ], "if you are hit while toiling [in battle] ..."3
Soplei/mhn [occurs] and [so does] e)mplei/mhn .
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