Παλαμήδης
Palamedes
Translated by David Whitehead12 Aug 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
"Me of course, I know a scheme1 out of the Palamedes.2 Just like that man, I will write [on] the oars and throw them." Just like Oiax3 wrote [about] Palamedes to his father Nauplios on various oars and threw them into the sea, so that at least one reached Nauplios. "So where might I get oars? [What if] I were to write on these images here, instead of oars, and throw them? Much better. At any rate these are wooden and so were they."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παλαμήδης· οἶδα δ' ἐγὼ καὶ δὴ πότερον ἐκ τοῦ Παλαμήδους. ὡς ἐκεῖνος τὰς πλάτας ῥίψω γράφων. ὥσπερ Οἴαξ τῷ Ναυπλίῳ γράφει τῷ πατρὶ τὸν Παλαμήδη ἐν διαφόροις πλάταις καὶ ῥιπτεῖ εἰς θάλασσαν, ὥστε μιᾷ γέ τινι Ναυπλίῳ περιπεσεῖν. πόθεν οὖν γ' ἔκειντό μοι πλάται; ταδὶ τἀγάλματα ἀντὶ πλατῶν γράφων διαρρίπτοιμι. βέλτιον πολύ. ξύλον γέ τοι καὶ ταῦτα, κἀκεῖν' ἦν ξύλον.
Betacode
*palamh/dhs: oi)=da d' e)gw\ kai\ dh\ po/teron e)k tou= *palamh/dous. w(s e)kei=nos ta\s pla/tas r(i/yw gra/fwn. w(/sper *oi)/ac tw=| *naupli/w| gra/fei tw=| patri\ to\n *palamh/dh e)n diafo/rois pla/tais kai\ r(iptei= ei)s qa/lassan, w(/ste mia=| ge/ tini *naupli/w| peripesei=n. po/qen ou)=n g' e)/keinto/ moi pla/tai; tadi\ ta)ga/lmata a)nti\ platw=n gra/fwn diarri/ptoimi. be/ltion polu/. cu/lon ge/ toi kai\ tau=ta, ka)kei=n' h)=n cu/lon.
Notes (3)
- For this headword (and individual) see already pi 44. The present entry quotes -- inaccurately -- Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 769-755 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia to 771 there; see also pi 1702.
- 1
po/ron ; the Suda has the meaninglesspo/teron . ↩ - 2Euripides' tragedy of that name, staged a few years earlier. ↩
- 3omicroniota 14. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 1 Mar 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- removed a keyword — David Whitehead
- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead