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Headword:
Φαθί
Adler number: phi,22
Translated headword: say
Vetting Status: high
Translation: With acute accent on the last syllable.[1] "Right after 'let us go', say 'ourselves'. - Ourselves."
Aristophanes in
Knights [says this].[2]
Φαθί: ὀξυτόνως. ἐξόπισθεν αὐτὸ φαθὶ τοῦ μόλωμεν. αὐτόθι. Ἀριστοφάνης Ἱππεῦσι.
Notes:
[1] Imperative of
φημί : Smyth at section 783 shows either
φαθί or
φάθι (web address 1).
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 22-23 (text at web address 2). The point of the lines, explained in what follows but hard to convey in translation, is that the combination of
αὐτό and the verb
μόλωμεν converts the verb into
αὐτομόλωμεν , "let us desert".
Web address 1
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 November 2001@23:23:18.
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