Ζῆ

live

Translated by Catharine Roth10 Dec 2003Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 46 words
[zh= can be used] instead of zh=qi. Euripides [sc. does so].1
[It is] also [used] instead of ze/ei ["boils"]. "Pot boils, friendship lives": [a proverb] in reference to those who join in friendship at a dinner.2
Also [sc. attested is] zh=| ["lives"], meaning exists, is alive.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ζῆ· ἀντὶ τοῦ ζῆθι. Εὐριπίδης. καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ ζέει. Ζῆ χύτρα, ζῆ φιλία, ἐπὶ τῶν δείπνῳ συνιόντων εἰς φιλίαν. καὶ Ζῇ, ἀντὶ τοῦ ὑπάρχει, βιοῖ.

Betacode
*zh=: a)nti\ tou= zh=qi. *eu)ripi/dhs. kai\ a)nti\ tou= ze/ei. *zh= xu/tra, zh= fili/a, e)pi\ tw=n dei/pnw| sunio/ntwn ei)s fili/an. kai\ *zh=|, a)nti\ tou= u(pa/rxei, bioi=.

Notes (2)

  1. 1That is, as an imperative: Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris 699 (web address 1). ↩
  2. 2Zenobius 4.12, etc. (Or perhaps "Let the pot boil, let friendship live". Again at zeta 96. See generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.439. ↩

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ζ46Ζειράkaftan, zeiraζ47Ζειραίseirai, caftansζ48Ζῆliveζ49ΖήβZebζ50ΖήβυρεςZebures, Zebyres
Revision history6 revisions · last 24 Mar 2016
  1. tweaked tr — David Whitehead
  2. upgraded link — Catharine Roth
  3. tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
  5. fixed betacode — Ross Scaife ✝
  6. augmented n.2, and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. Translated — Catharine Roth

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