Τῆτες
this year
Translated by Catharine Roth1 Mar 2014Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[*th=tes ] and th=ta : in this year, on [the] year.1
"[He] laughed, because Hyperbolos received the lot to be hieromnemon this year." Aristophanes in Clouds [sc. says this].2
The Dorians call thista=tes , and with a delta th=des .3
"[He] laughed, because Hyperbolos received the lot to be hieromnemon this year." Aristophanes in Clouds [sc. says this].2
The Dorians call this
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τῆτες καὶ Τῆτα· τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει, ἐπ' ἔτος. ἐγελᾶτ', ἀνθ' ὧν Ὑπέρβολον ἔλαχε τῆτες ἱερομνημονεῖν. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις. τοῦτο οἱ Δωριεῖς τᾶτες λέγουσι, καὶ διὰ τοῦ δ τῆδες.
Betacode
*th=tes kai\ *th=ta: tou/tw| tw=| e)/tei, e)p' e)/tos. e)gela=t', a)nq' w(=n *(upe/rbolon e)/laxe th=tes i(eromnhmonei=n. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais. tou=to oi( *dwriei=s ta=tes le/gousi, kai\ dia\ tou= d th=des.
Notes (3)
- 1The headword is an adverb from
e)/tos "year" with a demonstrative prefix *ky-, which appears in Attic and Doric dialects ast- , buts- in Ionic. (The word is attested in Mycenean as za-we-te (tsawetes): see Chantraine s.v.) It is given here in two forms,th=tes andth=ta . Minusth=ta (which seems to be attested only here), this = Synagoge tau167 and Photius, Lexicon tau271 Theodoridis; cf. also e.g. Phrynichus, Hesychius tau240 and tau824, Harpokration tau12 Keaney (citing fragments of Lysias and Aristophanes). ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Clouds 623-4 -- but read
gela=t' (imperative "laugh") andlaxw\n *(uperbo/los in the nominative with a participle. On Hyperbolos see upsilon 245. On hieromnemones see iota 182, iota 183, and pi 3158. ↩ - 3From a scholion on Aristophanes, Acharnians 15 (where
th=tes occurs). ↩
References
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, ed. 2, Paris 2009
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