Πορθμεῖς
ferrymen
Translated by William Hutton17 Feb 2013Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] crossing-men. Aristophanes [writes]: "you would be bothersome if you became ferrymen. You would drag the passengers and rough them up." Because ferrymen force passers-by to get onto their own boats.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πορθμεῖς· οἱ περάται. Ἀριστοφάνης· χαλεπαί γ' ἂν ἦτε γενόμεναι πορθμεῖς. ἕλκοντες τοὺς πλωτῆρας ἀπεκναίετε. ἐπειδὴ οἱ πορθμεῖς τοὺς παριόντας ἀναγκάζουσιν εἰς τὰ ἴδια πλοῖα ἐμβαίνειν.
Betacode
*porqmei=s: oi( pera/tai. *)aristofa/nhs: xalepai/ g' a)\n h)=te geno/menai porqmei=s. e(/lkontes tou\s plwth=ras a)peknai/ete. e)peidh\ oi( porqmei=s tou\s pario/ntas a)nagka/zousin ei)s ta\ i)/dia ploi=a e)mbai/nein.
Notes
- A close but unmetrical approximation of Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae [Assemblywomen] 1086-7, with comments from the scholia (where, as in Aristophanes, the alternative Attic-dialect spelling of the headword
porqmh=s is found).
cf. generally pi 2069, pi 2070, pi 2072, pi 2073.
Linked from4 entries
- π2069Πορθμεύεινto act as a ferryman; to operate a ferry"He finds Nessos acting as a ferryman for a fee and persuades him to ferry Alcmene and Deianeira".
- π2070Πορθμεῖονferry[*porqmei=on means] the boat. But po/rqmion [is] the fare.
- π2072Πορθμήϊονferry-fee[Meaning] the pay of a sailor. Callimachus [writes]: "therefore even as corpses they do not carry a ferry-fee." For in Aegialus there is a way down to Hades, which Demeter came to and learned from the locals about Kore…
- π2073Πορθμὶςferryboat[Ferry-boat] and ferry-dinghy. "You who sail the water of Acheron in a dark ferryboat."
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Revision history2 revisions · last 10 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- x-refs; tweaking — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton