Μῆλα
sheep
Translated by Ioannis Doukas13 May 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[sc. The term comes] from the [verb] me/lw ["I care"], [meaning] I take thought for, me/la and mh=la , those which are worthy of attention [epimeleia]. Homer [writes]: "herding his fine-fleeced sheep".1 Meaning having herded them.
*mh=la [are] also the breasts; "at any rate Menelaus, on seeing the mh=la of the naked Helen, threw away, I think, his sword".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μῆλα· παρὰ τὸ μέλω, τὸ φροντίζω, μέλα καὶ μῆλα, τὰ ἐπιμελείας ἄξια. Ὅμηρος· καλλίτριχα μῆλα νομεύων. ἀντὶ τοῦ νομεύσας. Μῆλα καὶ οἱ μασθοί· ὁ γοῦν Μενέλαος τῆς Ἑλένης τὰ μῆλά που γυμνῆς παρευιδὼν ἐξέβαλ', οἰῶ, τὸ ξίφος.
Betacode
*mh=la: para\ to\ me/lw, to\ fronti/zw, me/la kai\ mh=la, ta\ e)pimelei/as a)/cia. *(/omhros: kalli/trixa mh=la nomeu/wn. a)nti\ tou= nomeu/sas. *mh=la kai\ oi( masqoi/: o( gou=n *mene/laos th=s *(ele/nhs ta\ mh=la/ pou gumnh=s pareuidw\n e)ce/bal', oi)w=, to\ ci/fos.
Notes (2)
- See also mu 916.
- 1Homer, Odyssey 9.336 (web address 1). ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Lysistrata 155-6 (in Doric dialect
ma=la , web address 2). A scholiast thereto identifies this as an allusion to Euripides, Andromache 629ff. In any event, the objects here are not sheep but fruit: see LSJmh=lon (B) rather thanmh=lon (A); cf. mu 934. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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- Translated — Ioannis Doukas