Ἴστωρ
knowing
Translated by Catharine Roth23 Apr 2006Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
"[Knowing], knowing too well, [my life] swept through every month with many terrible and hateful pains!" Sophocles [writes this]. "And I knowing this" means I am knowledgeable about this, that I am in misery. I know that I am wretched, by this very [life] swept through with many pains; that is, by [this life] which sweeps together all the evils. Or else pansu/rtw| [means] impelled by every impulse of evils; and pammh/nw| [means] for a long time and continuous. So I am wretched, because all the pains have been swept together for us and have remained continuously.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἴστωρ, ὑπερίστωρ, πανσύρτῳ, παμμήνῳ πολλῶν δεινῶν στυγνῶν τ' ἀχέων· Σοφοκλῆς. κἀγὼ τοῦδ' ἴστωρ, ἀντὶ τοῦ κἀγὼ τούτου ἐπιστήμων εἰμί, ὅτι ταλαίπωρός εἰμι· οἶδα, ὅτι δειλαία εἰμί, αὐτῷ τούτῳ τῷ πανσύρτῳ τῶν πολλῶν ἀχέων, τουτέστι τῷ πάντα σύροντι τὰ κακά. ἢ πανσύρτῳ, τῷ μετὰ πάσης ὁρμῆς τῶν κακῶν ὡρμημένῳ. παμμήνῳ δὲ τῷ πολυχρονίῳ καὶ διηνεκεῖ. δειλαία οὖν εἰμι, ὅτι πάντα τὰ ἄχη εἰς ἡμᾶς συνεσύρη καὶ διηνεκῆ παρέμεινεν.
Betacode
*)/istwr, u(peri/stwr, pansu/rtw|, pammh/nw| pollw=n deinw=n stugnw=n t' a)xe/wn: *sofoklh=s. ka)gw\ tou=d' i)/stwr, a)nti\ tou= ka)gw\ tou/tou e)pisth/mwn ei)mi/, o(/ti talai/pwro/s ei)mi: oi)=da, o(/ti deilai/a ei)mi/, au)tw=| tou/tw| tw=| pansu/rtw| tw=n pollw=n a)xe/wn, toute/sti tw=| pa/nta su/ronti ta\ kaka/. h)\ pansu/rtw|, tw=| meta\ pa/shs o(rmh=s tw=n kakw=n w(rmhme/nw|. pammh/nw| de\ tw=| poluxroni/w| kai\ dihnekei=. deilai/a ou)=n ei)mi, o(/ti pa/nta ta\ a)/xh ei)s h(ma=s sunesu/rh kai\ dihnekh= pare/meinen.
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External resources
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Revision history3 revisions · last 17 Jan 2013
- upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth