Ζῆ καῖε πῦρ
blaze! burn, fire!
Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo1 Jun 2005Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[sc. A proverbial injunction] in reference to things that (?)happened with difficulty.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ζῆ· καῖε πῦρ· ἐπὶ τῶν μόλις γενομένων.
Betacode
*zh=: kai=e pu=r: e)pi\ tw=n mo/lis genome/nwn.
Notes (1)
- cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 2.97, identical but with a present participle in the gloss; see further below, n. 1.
The first verb is the imperative ofza/w , "I live" (cf. zeta 48). This use ofza/w is attested also in Euripides, Bacchae 6:puro\s e(/ti zw=san flo/ga , "the flame of fire still blazing". - 1The transmitted aorist participle
genome/nwn is translated here, but the Appendix Proverbioruem (above) has present-tenseginome/nwn , and this was printed in the Suda editio princeps. ↩
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