Οὐκ ἐτός
not in vain
Translated by Catharine Roth3 Aug 2010Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] not irrationally, not truly. Meaning justly; for it is an adverb [used] instead of e)tew=s ["truly"]: from the [phrase] e)tew=s sunh|rhme/nou "truly fitting."1 Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "not improbably then he [Wealth] never yet came to me."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Οὐκ ἐτός· οὐκ ἀλόγως, οὐκ ἀληθῶς. ἀντὶ τοῦ δικαίως· ἐπιρρηματικὸν γάρ ἐστιν ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐτεῶς· ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐτεῶς συνῃρημένου. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· οὐκ ἐτὸς ἀρ' ὡς ἔμ' ἦλθεν οὐδεπώποτε.
Betacode
*ou)k e)to/s: ou)k a)lo/gws, ou)k a)lhqw=s. a)nti\ tou= dikai/ws: e)pirrhmatiko\n ga/r e)stin a)nti\ tou= e)tew=s: a)po\ tou= e)tew=s sunh|rhme/nou. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: ou)k e)to\s a)r' w(s e)/m' h)=lqen ou)depw/pote.
Notes (1)
- Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 404 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. scholion on Lysistrata 138 (quoted at omicron 890).
cf. omicron 888. - 1Ms M, Adler reports, has the adverbial form
sunh|rhme/nws 'fittingly'. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- ο888Οὐκ ἐτῶςnot in vain[Meaning] not with propriety, or not fruitlessly: from the [adjective] e)tw/sion ['vain'], which is 'useless'; [thus the phrase means] 'not irrationally'. Aristophanes [writes]: "not in vain do all the jurors hurry en…
- ο890Οὐκ ἐτὸς ἀφ' ἡμῶν εἰσιν αἱ τραγῳδίαι οὐδὲν γάρ εἰσι πλὴν Ποσειδῶν καὶ σκάφηno wonder tragedies [come] from us for they are nothing but Poseidon and a boatA proverbial phrase in reference to those involved in the same thing but content to think of nothing else. The sense [is]: we [sc. women] are nothing but sex and childbirth. For Poseidon copulated with Tyro and produced…
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Revision history2 revisions · last 1 Aug 2013
- another x-ref — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Catharine Roth