Παντοίας ἤδη μούσης πειραθέντες καθ' ἑαυτούς

you who already have experience of every kind of muse by yourselves

Translated by William Hutton14 Jun 2011Vetting: high3 revisions

8 words

Translation

That is, of a diverse and eclectic [one].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παντοίας ἤδη μούσης πειραθέντες καθ' ἑαυτούς· τουτέστι ποικίλης καὶ παντοδαπῆς.

Betacode
*pantoi/as h)/dh mou/shs peiraqe/ntes kaq' e(autou/s: toute/sti poiki/lhs kai\ pantodaph=s. 

Notes

  1. The headword phrase is a quotation of Aristophanes, Knights 505-506 (web address 1: here without the opening w)=); the glosses (from the scholia there) seek to explain the word pantoi/as ('every kind of') that occurs in the quotation. (Both this word and the glosses are genitive singular feminine adjectives.)
    On the basic level the noun 'muse' or 'Muse' (mou/shs) is used metonymically for 'poetry'; however, the aorist passive participle peiraqe/ntes can mean 'try the patience of' or, with an animate feminine object, even 'assault sexually'; thus there may be a double- or triple-entendre at work.

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Revision history3 revisions · last 5 May 2021
  1. added a link — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaks — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

“you who already have experience of every kind of muse by yourselves.” Suda On Line. Tr. William Hutton. 14 June 2011. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/245>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/pi/245>.

Translation by William Hutton for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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