Τρώξονται
they will munch
Translated by Catharine Roth19 Feb 2012Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] they will eat. Aristophanes [writes]: "let somebody bring some dried figs from inside [for the piglets]. Will they munch [them]?"1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τρώξονται· φάγωσιν. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἐνεγκάτω τις ἔνδοθεν τῶν ἰσχάδων. ἆρα τρώξονται;
Betacode
*trw/contai: fa/gwsin. *)aristofa/nhs: e)negka/tw tis e)/ndoqen tw=n i)sxa/dwn. a)=ra trw/contai;
Notes (1)
- The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is future (middle) of
trw/gw , third person plural; cf. tau 1077. - 1An abridgement of Aristophanes, Acharnians 805-6 (web address 1), with scholion. (The 'piglets' are in fact the starving Megarian's daughters.) For
i)sxa/s "dried fig," see iota 711. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 18 Oct 2022
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth