Ἴθι
go!
Translated by Catharine Roth13 Feb 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] walk, or proceed.1
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "go, I beseech you."2 [Meaning] proceed. But here [its sense is] obey me. "I beseech you" [amounts to] I beg you, in Attic. The same [poet] in Frogs [writes]: "go now, since you are high-spirited."3 Meaning come. For it is synonymous with deuro ['here']. It also means 'come.'4
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "go, I beseech you."2 [Meaning] proceed. But here [its sense is] obey me. "I beseech you" [amounts to] I beg you, in Attic. The same [poet] in Frogs [writes]: "go now, since you are high-spirited."3 Meaning come. For it is synonymous with deuro ['here']. It also means 'come.'4