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Headword:
Ἄγε
δῆτα
Adler number: alpha,180
Translated headword: hey there
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Come now, you there, over here.[1]
And [there is] an epigram addressed to
Diogenes the cynic: "' Hey,
Diogenes, tell us, what fate took you to
Hades?' 'A dog's bite took me'".[2]
But the epigram [sc. illustrates the idiom] in short form.
Ἄγε δῆτα: φέρε, κόμιζε, δεῦρο. καὶ ἐπίγραμμα εἰς Διογένην τὸν Κύνα: Διόγενες, ἄγε, λέγε, τίς ἔλαβέ σε μόρος ἐς Ἄϊδος; ἔλαβέ με κυνὸς ὀδάξ. τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμα διὰ βραχέων.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in
Photius and elsewhere.
[2]
Diogenes Laertius 6.79 =
Greek Anthology 7.116; cf. again
delta 1141,
omicron 28. The original reads "a dog's savage bite" (
κυνὸς ἄγριον ὀδάξ ).
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 7 June 1999@11:32:12.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (Added cross-reference and keywords.) on 25 January 2001@01:34:50.
David Whitehead (modified translation and references; added keyword; cosmetics) on 25 January 2001@03:37:10.
Jennifer Benedict (beta-typo, title tagging) on 26 March 2008@02:00:59.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 27 March 2008@08:43:48.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 29 December 2011@06:26:24.
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