Τοῖς τεκοῦσι γὰρ οὐδ' εἰ πονεῖ τις
for never must anyone who suffers for his parents hold a memory of the suffering
Translated by Ronald Allen8 Mar 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
That is, whenever anyone suffers on behalf of [his] parents, he should not regard the suffering to be a burden.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τοῖς τεκοῦσι γὰρ οὐδ' εἰ πονεῖ τις, δεῖ πόνου μνήμην ἔχειν· τουτέστιν, ὅταν τις ὑπὲρ γονέων πονῇ, μὴ ἡγεῖσθαι πόνον εἶναι τὸν κάματον.
Betacode
*toi=s tekou=si ga\r ou)d' ei) ponei= tis, dei= po/nou mnh/mhn e)/xein: toute/stin, o(/tan tis u(pe\r gone/wn ponh=|, mh\ h(gei=sqai po/non ei)=nai to\n ka/maton.
Notes
- The headword phrase, already at tau 242, is Ismene's advice to her sister Antigone in Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 508-9 (web address 1); the gloss is from the scholia there.
The participletekou=si is the aorist active, masculine (and neuter) dative plural, of the verbti/ktw , I bring into the world; see LSJ s.v.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 22 Oct 2022
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen