Πόσου

for how much?

Translated by Catharine Roth21 Feb 2013Vetting: high2 revisions

27 words

Translation

"[For how much] may I buy your piglets? Tell [me]". -- "One of them for a bunch of garlic, the other [...] for one choenix of salt".

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πόσου πρίωμαί σοι τὰ χοιρίδια· λέγε. τὸ μὲν ἕτερον τούτων σκορόδων τροφαλλίδος, τὸ δ' ἅτερον, χοίνικος μόνης ἁλῶν.

Betacode
*po/sou pri/wmai/ soi ta\ xoiri/dia: le/ge. to\ me\n e(/teron tou/twn skoro/dwn trofalli/dos, to\ d' a(/teron, xoi/nikos mo/nhs a(lw=n. 

Notes

  1. An approximation (and light abridgement) of Aristophanes, Acharnians 812-814 (web address 1). The speakers are Dicaeopolis and the Megarian.

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Revision history2 revisions · last 10 Oct 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. expanded note; more keywords — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — Catharine Roth

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