Τί δῆτα θεῶν στρέφῃ
why ever are you busy with gods?
Translated by Robert Dyer17 May 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Meaning "what are you wasting your time on?"
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τί δῆτα θεῶν στρέφῃ· ἀντὶ τοῦ τί ἐνδιατρίβεις;
Betacode
*ti/ dh=ta qew=n stre/fh|: a)nti\ tou= ti/ e)ndiatri/beis;
Notes
- The headword phrase is so very like Plato, Phaedrus 236E (
ti/ dh=ta e)/xwn stre/fh| - "what exactly is bothering you?"), that the proposal of David Ruhnken (1723-1798), noted by Adler, to eliminate any mention of "gods" here is surely right.
Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and Photius tau280 Theodoridis.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 27 Dec 2014
- betacode cosmeticule, coding — Catharine Roth
- another note — David Whitehead
- expanded note; more keywords — David Whitehead
- modified translation; added note and keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Robert Dyer