Οἰῶ
I suppose
Translated by Jennifer Benedict8 Jun 2004Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Οἰῶ· ἀντὶ τοῦ οἴομαι. ἀλλ' ἀρχὰ μέν, οἰῶ, Λαμπιτώ. ἀντὶ τοῦ ὡς οἴομαι, ἀρχὴ τῆς μάχης ἡ Λαμπιτώ.
Betacode
*oi)w=: a)nti\ tou= oi)/omai. a)ll' a)rxa\ me/n, oi)w=, *lampitw/. a)nti\ tou= w(s oi)/omai, a)rxh\ th=s ma/xhs h( *lampitw/.
Notes (3)
- See already lambda 92.
- 1
oi)/omai is the middle deponent and the headwordoi)w= a Laconian active counterpart to this verb (o)i+/w oroi)/w in epic): cf. omicron 99. ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Lysistrata 998 (web address 1 below), where editors prefer Hermann's
a)=rxe , "[Lampito] began," to "[was] the cause" [a)rxa/ ]. ↩ - 3From the scholia to this verse. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 28 Mar 2021
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added cross-reference, restored web link — Catharine Roth
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- modified notes; more keywords; betacoding and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict