Κύσον με
kiss me
Translated by William Hutton6 Mar 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] show me affection.1 Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "kiss me and give me your right hand."2 For a pledge and agreements they used to give their right hands to each other. So in an effort to persuade the youth, the old man requests to receive this show of faith from him.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κύσον με· φίλησόν με. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· κύσον με καὶ τὴν χεῖρα δὸς τὴν δεξιάν. ἐπὶ πίστει καὶ συνθήκαις διδόναι τὰς δεξιὰς ἀλλήλοις εἰώθασιν. ὑπὲρ οὖν τοῦ πεισθῆναι τὸν νεανίαν, ὁ πρεσβύτης ταύτην ἀξιοῖ παρ' αὐτοῦ πίστιν λαβεῖν.
Betacode
*ku/son me: fi/lhso/n me. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: ku/son me kai\ th\n xei=ra do\s th\n decia/n. e)pi\ pi/stei kai\ sunqh/kais dido/nai ta\s decia\s a)llh/lois ei)w/qasin. u(pe\r ou)=n tou= peisqh=nai to\n neani/an, o( presbu/ths tau/thn a)cioi= par' au)tou= pi/stin labei=n.
Notes (2)
- The headword phrase and the gloss both display the aorist active infinitives of their respective verbs.
- 1The verb used in the gloss here has a broader range of meanings than the headword, including the synonymous 'kiss', and that is probably what is intended here. Unfortunately there is no convenient synonym for 'kiss' in English that could be used here to distinguish it from the headword. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Clouds 81 (web address 1), with scholion; and cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 24.478 (where another form of this verb occurs). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 25 Mar 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked translation, augmented notes — William Hutton
- augmented note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added keyword, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton