Adler τ 564Τί δῆτ' ἂν ἀλγοίης ἐπ' ἐξειργασμένοις why ever would you grieve over things that are finished?[1]
Translated by Robert Dyer · 17 May 2000 · · 3 revisions
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2 notes · 45 words Translation Meaning over things that are completed and cannot be healed. "For it would not happen that these things were not so". [Meaning] that they were not as they are. As in the [saying] of
Simonides , "for that which has happened will no longer be unaccomplished."
2 Greek original · Adler’s text Τί δῆτ' ἂν ἀλγοίης ἐπ' ἐξειργασμένοις· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ τετελεσμένοις καὶ ἴασιν οὐκ ἔχουσιν. οὔτε γὰρ γένοιτ' ἂν ταῦθ' ὅπως οὐχ ὧδ' ἔχειν. ὅπως τοῦ μὴ οὕτως σχοίη· κατὰ τὸ τοῦ Σιμωνίδου· τὸ γὰρ γεγενημένον οὐκέτ' ἄρεκτον ἔσται.
Betacode *ti/ dh=t' a)\n a)lgoi/hs e)p' e)ceirgasme/nois: a)nti\ tou= e)pi\ tetelesme/nois kai\ i)/asin ou)k e)/xousin. ou)/te ga\r ge/noit' a)\n tau=q' o(/pws ou)x w(=d' e)/xein. o(/pws tou= mh\ ou(/tws sxoi/h: kata\ to\ tou= *simwni/dou: to\ ga\r gegenhme/non ou)ke/t' a)/rekton e)/stai. Copy Greek Notes (2) 1 Sophocles , Ajax 377. The scholia there provide the gloss here. The quotation then continues (378), followed by a second gloss.↩ 2 Simonides fr.98 Page (PMG).↩ Revision history 3 revisions · last 14 Aug 2011 14 Aug 2011 cosmetics — David Whitehead 21 May 2001 added note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead 20 Aug 2000 Altered wording. — Catharine Roth 17 May 2000 Translated — Robert Dyer
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