Παιγνία
entertainment
Translated by David Whitehead10 May 2004Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παιγνία· ἑορτή. ὥστε τἠκάτῃ ποιοῦσα παιγνίαν ἐγὼ τοῖσι παισὶ τὴν ἑταίραν ἐκάλεσ' ἐκ τῶν γειτόνων. καὶ Ξενοφῶν· οἱ δὲ ναρθηκοφόροι ἐδίωκον σὺν πολλῷ γέλωτι καὶ παιγνίᾳ.
Betacode
*paigni/a: e(orth/. w(/ste th)ka/th| poiou=sa paigni/an e)gw\ toi=si paisi\ th\n e(tai/ran e)ka/les' e)k tw=n geito/nwn. kai\ *cenofw=n: oi( de\ narqhkofo/roi e)di/wkon su\n pollw=| ge/lwti kai\ paigni/a|.
Notes (2)
- 1An incomplete version of Aristophanes, Lysistrata 700-701 (web address 1), with the gloss from the scholia there. The 'girl-friend from next door' is revealed in the next line as a Boiotian eel, to be a delicacy at this picnic; however, from enemy territory it cannot come. For Hekate see generally epsilon 363, epsilon 364, epsilon 365. ↩
- 2Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.18 (a sham battle), here truncated (cf. web address 2). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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- Translated — David Whitehead