Τί δαί
what indeed?
Translated by Catharine Roth21 Feb 2014Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[*ti/ dai/ means the same as] ti/ dh/ ? They say ti/ dh/ also like this.1
Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "What indeed? Aren't you filling the triremes? Tell me." It is an interrogative conjunction, written with the diphthong for extension.2 And Homer [writes] in the Odyssey: "What [kind of] banquet [is this]? What crowd indeed?"3
Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "What indeed? Aren't you filling the triremes? Tell me." It is an interrogative conjunction, written with the diphthong for extension.2 And Homer [writes] in the Odyssey: "What [kind of] banquet [is this]? What crowd indeed?"3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τί δαί· τί δή; καὶ οὕτως λέγουσιν τὸ τί δή. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· τί δαί; τὰς τριήρεις οὐ σὺ πληροῖς; εἰπέ μοι. ἔστι δὲ σύνδεσμος ἐρωτηματικὸς διὰ τὴν ἔκτασιν διὰ διφθόγγου γραφόμενος. καὶ Ὅμηρος· τίς δαίς; τίς δαὶ ὅμιλος; ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ.
Betacode
*ti/ dai/: ti/ dh/; kai\ ou(/tws le/gousin to\ ti/ dh/. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: ti/ dai/; ta\s trih/reis ou) su\ plhroi=s; ei)pe/ moi. e)/sti de\ su/ndesmos e)rwthmatiko\s dia\ th\n e)/ktasin dia\ difqo/ggou grafo/menos. kai\ *(/omhros: ti/s dai/s; ti/s dai\ o(/milos; e)n *)odussei/a|.
Notes (3)
- See also tau 562.
- 1Likewise in Photius, Lexicon tau279 Theodoridis; similarly in Hesychius tau847 and the scholia to Aristophanes, Plutus 156 (see at n. 3 below). According to LSJ s.v., this is a colloquial equivalent of
ti/ dh/ . ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 172. ↩
- 3(From a scholion on Aristophanes, Plutus 156:) Homer, Odyssey 225 (where perhaps
de\ should be read rather thandai\ ). ↩
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