Παιδάριον
little child
Translated by David Whitehead28 Feb 2004Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
The [sc. Attic] orators have used the word1 not only in reference to males but also in reference to young girls. Hyperides in the [speech] In Reply to Timandros [writes]: "for when these had been left, two brothers and two sisters, orphaned in respect of their father and mother, and little children".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παιδάριον· οὐ μόνον ἐπὶ τῶν ἀρρένων κέχρηνται τῷ ὀνόματι οἱ ῥήτορες, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ παρθένων. Ὑπερίδης ἐν τῷ πρὸς Τίμανδρον· καταλλαχθέντων γὰρ τούτων δυοῖν ἀδελφοῖν καὶ δυαῖν ἀδελφαῖν ὀρφαναῖν καὶ πρὸς πατρὸς καὶ μητρὸς καὶ παιδαρίων παίδων.
Betacode
*paida/rion: ou) mo/non e)pi\ tw=n a)rre/nwn ke/xrhntai tw=| o)no/mati oi( r(h/tores, a)lla\ kai\ e)pi\ parqe/nwn. *(uperi/dhs e)n tw=| pro\s *ti/mandron: katallaxqe/ntwn ga\r tou/twn duoi=n a)delfoi=n kai\ duai=n a)delfai=n o)rfanai=n kai\ pro\s patro\s kai\ mhtro\s kai\ paidari/wn pai/dwn.
Notes (2)
- 1A diminutive of
pai=s . Also used outside oratory: see LSJ s.v. ↩ - 2Hyperides fr. 164 Jensen. Jensen (like his Teubner predecessor Blass) emended it substantially from the words transmitted here, eliminating the brothers in the process -- but wrongly: this very passage has now enabled Natalie Tchernetska (see bibliography) to identify one of the non-Archimedian texts on the "Archimedes Palimpsest" (web address 1 below) as part of this speech. ↩
References
N. Tchernetska, "New fragments of Hyperides from the Archimedes palimpsest", ZPE 154 (2005) 1-6
D. Whitehead, "Hypereides' Timandros: observations and suggestions", BICS 52 (2009) 135-148, at 135-136
D. Whitehead, "Hypereides' Timandros: observations and suggestions", BICS 52 (2009) 135-148, at 135-136
External resources
- Web address 1 archimedespalimpsest.org
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Revision history5 revisions · last 2 Sep 2011
- expanded and updated n.2; added bibliography and a website — David Whitehead
- modified n.2 — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- augmented note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead