Τεχνάσμασι
with artifices; with contrivances
Translated by David Whitehead2 Mar 2014Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] with deceits, with villainies. "For [it is] not right to bear one's misfortunes with artifices, but with endurances. -- And yet you, pathic, you are wide-arsed not in words but in endurances."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τεχνάσμασι· δόλοις, πανουργίαις. τὰς συμφορὰς γὰρ οὐχὶ τοῖς τεχνάσμασι φέρειν δίκαιον, ἀλλὰ τοῖς παθήμασι. καὶ μὴν σύ γ', ὦ καταπῦγον, εὐρύπρωκτος εἶ, οὐ τοῖς λόγοισιν, ἀλλὰ τοῖς παθήμασιν.
Betacode
*texna/smasi: do/lois, panourgi/ais. ta\s sumfora\s ga\r ou)xi\ toi=s texna/smasi fe/rein di/kaion, a)lla\ toi=s paqh/masi. kai\ mh\n su/ g', w)= katapu=gon, eu)ru/prwktos ei)=, ou) toi=s lo/goisin, a)lla\ toi=s paqh/masin.
Notes (1)
- The headword, dative plural of the neuter noun
texna/sma , is extracted from the quotation given. This noun is derived from the verbtexna/zw (tau 439). - 1Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 198-201 (an exchange between Agathon [alpha 124] and Mnesilochus), with glosses from the scholia there. The word-play in the passage revolves around two kinds of 'endurance' (
pa/qhma ), one ethical, one (homo)sexual. ↩
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- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- x-ref; another keyword — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead