Ὦ παῖ
o son
Translated by Pam Little14 Apr 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Sophocles [writes]: "o son, may you be more fortunate than your father, if similar in other ways; then you would not be bad".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὦ παῖ· Σοφοκλῆς· ὦ παῖ, γένοιο πατρὸς εὐτυχέστερος, τὰ δ' ἄλλ' ὅμοιος· καὶ γένοι' ἂν οὐ κακός.
Betacode
*)=w pai=: *sofoklh=s: w)= pai=, ge/noio patro\s eu)tuxe/steros, ta\ d' a)/ll' o(/moios: kai\ ge/noi' a)\n ou) kako/s.
Notes
- Sophocles, Ajax 550-551 (spoken by Ajax to his infant son).
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Revision history5 revisions · last 8 Aug 2011
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added keyword — Catharine Roth
- modified headword and translation; augmented note — David Whitehead
- add ref to where the lines come from — Anne Mahoney
- Translated — Pam Little