Ἔσπετε
tell
Translated by Catharine Roth8 May 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] make [me] speak.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἔσπετε· εἰπεῖν ποιήσατε.
Betacode
*)/espete: ei)pei=n poih/sate.
Notes
- Likewise or similarly in other lexica (but sometimes with textual corruption: see Photius, Lexicon pi2108 Theodoridis). The correct headword, as here, is aorist imperative of
e)ne/pw , used in the epic formulae)/spete nu=n moi, *Mou=sai ... "tell me, Muses ..." (four times in the Iliad, e.g. 2.284; also in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod).
Probably from *e)/n-spete with zero-grade of the root *sekw-; cf. epsilon 1351.