Παραχορδιεῖς
you will strike a wrong note
Translated by Catharine Roth19 Apr 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] you will do [something] unseemly, don't do anything first, but say what one ought to say. "Attending to yourself, so that you will strike no wrong note in what you ought to show."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παραχορδιεῖς· παράσεμνον ποιήσεις, μηδὲν πρὶν φθέγξῃ, ἀλλ' ἃ δεῖ εἰπεῖν εἴπῃς. σαυτῷ προσέχων, ὅπως μηδὲν παραχορδιεῖς ὧν δεῖ σ' ἀποδεῖξαι.
Betacode
*paraxordiei=s: para/semnon poih/seis, mhde\n pri\n fqe/gch|, a)ll' a(\ dei= ei)pei=n ei)/ph|s. sautw=| prose/xwn, o(/pws mhde\n paraxordiei=s w(=n dei= s' a)podei=cai.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 295a-b (web address 1), preceded here by the gloss of the scholia there.
The headword, extracted from the quotation, is future indicative ofparaxordi/zw , second person singular; cf. pi 361 and pi 491.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 14 Sep 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth