Μουσωθῆναι
to have been educated
Translated by Ioannis Doukas25 Jun 2007Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to have been taught by the Muses [or: in the ways of the Muses].1 "For neither to be poetical nor to have been educated with the expert wisdom of paeans and hymns".2
Also [sc. attested is]memou/swmai ['I have been educated'],3 [meaning] I have been taught. "Me, I am a woman, but I have a Muse,4 and I don’t lack an opinion of my own; having heard many speeches from my father and the city-elders, I am not badly educated." Meaning I have been taught, I have practiced. Lysistrata says [this].5
Also [sc. attested is]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μουσωθῆναι· παρὰ μουσῶν διδαχθῆναι. μήτε γὰρ εἶναι ποιητικὸς μήτε μὴν μουσωθῆναι παιάνων καὶ ὕμνων ἐπιστήμονα σοφίαν. καὶ Μεμούσωμαι· πεπαίδευμαι. ἐγὼ γυνὴ μέν εἰμι, μοῦσα δ' ἔνεστί μοι, αὐτὴ δ' ἐμαυτῆς οὐ κακῶς γνώμης ἔχω· τοὺς δ' ἐκ πατρός τε καὶ γεραιτέρων λόγους πολλοὺς ἀκούσασ' οὐ μεμούσωμαι κακῶς. ἀντὶ τοῦ πεπαίδευμαι, ἤσκημαι. Λυσιστράτη φησί.
Betacode
*mouswqh=nai: para\ mousw=n didaxqh=nai. mh/te ga\r ei)=nai poihtiko\s mh/te mh\n mouswqh=nai paia/nwn kai\ u(/mnwn e)pisth/mona sofi/an. kai\ *memou/swmai: pepai/deumai. e)gw\ gunh\ me/n ei)mi, mou=sa d' e)/nesti/ moi, au)th\ d' e)mauth=s ou) kakw=s gnw/mhs e)/xw: tou\s d' e)k patro/s te kai\ geraite/rwn lo/gous pollou\s a)kou/sas' ou) memou/swmai kakw=s. a)nti\ tou= pepai/deumai, h)/skhmai. *lusistra/th fhsi/.
Notes (5)
- 1The headword is aorist passive infinitive of the verb
mouso/omai , presumably from the quotation which immediately follows. ↩ - 2Aelian fr. 251 Domingo-Forasté (253 Hercher). ↩
- 3First person singular, perfect indicative, of the verb
mouso/omai ; from Aristophanes (see below). ↩ - 4Aristophanes' text has
nou=s "mind", notmou=sa . ↩ - 5Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1124-1127 (web address 1) ,with comment from the scholia there -- according to which, these verses derive from the tragedy Melanippe the Wise by Euripides (fr.483 Nauck). ↩
References
Hercher, R. (ed.), Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, vol. 2, Leipzig 1866, pp. 189-283
Nauck, A. (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta, Leipzig 1889
Nauck, A. (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta, Leipzig 1889
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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