Παμπησίαν
possession-as-a-whole
Translated by David Whitehead4 Aug 2010Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] all the property. "You, Sikon and Xenophantes, take up the possession-as-a-whole."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παμπησίαν· πᾶσαν τὴν κτῆσιν. σὺ δ', ὦ Σίκων καὶ Ξενόφαντες, αἴρεσθε τὴν παμπησίαν.
Betacode
*pamphsi/an: pa=san th\n kth=sin. su\ d', w)= *si/kwn kai\ *ceno/fantes, ai)/resqe th\n pamphsi/an.
Notes (1)
- The headword, a rare feminine noun in the accusative case, is extracted from the quotation given. It is tragedic vocabulary (instances in Aeschylus and Euripides), and therefore incongruous in this comedic context.
- 1A heterodox version of Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 867-8 (with a scholiast's comment on the present headword). The mss of Aristophanes unanimously give the name of the second slave addressed as Parmenon: see web address 1. (The name Xenophantes is otherwise found only in a list of Pythagoreans from Metapontum; its appearance in the present context is baffling.) ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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