Προσηγάγου
you embraced
Translated by David Whitehead15 Mar 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Meaning you hugged, you took to yourself.1 Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "you did not kiss [sc. my son], you did not address [him], you did not embrace [him]". Meaning you did [not] take [him] to yourself for intimacy.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προσηγάγου· ἀντὶ τοῦ περιεπλέξω, παρὰ σεαυτὸν ἔλαβες. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισιν· οὐκ ἔκυσας, οὐ προσεῖπας, οὐ προσηγάγου. ἀντὶ τοῦ πρὸς σεαυτὸν ἔλαβες εἰς συνουσίαν.
Betacode
*proshga/gou: a)nti\ tou= perieple/cw, para\ seauto\n e)/labes. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisin: ou)k e)/kusas, ou) prosei=pas, ou) proshga/gou. a)nti\ tou= pro\s seauto\n e)/labes ei)s sunousi/an.
Notes (2)
- 1The headword, extracted from the quotation, is second person singular, aorist middle, of
prosa/gw (cf. pi 2584, pi 2585). ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Birds 141 (web address 1), with scholion. Dunbar comments: "Eu[elpides]'s ideal city is one in which a man, meeting a boy in the street whose father he knew, would be positively expected to make a sexual approach to the lad, and would find the father angry if he did not". ↩
References
N. Dunbar (ed.), Aristophanes: Birds (Oxford 1995)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 17 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded notes — David Whitehead
- expanded note, added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead