Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Asyndetic, Privative Adjectives in Fragments of Old Comedy
While reading Fragments of Old Comedy, edited and translated by Ian C. Storey, 3 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), I noticed some examples of asyndetic, privative adjectives.
Nicochares, fragment 21 (vol. II, pp. 392-393):
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Nicochares, fragment 21 (vol. II, pp. 392-393):
ἀλλ' εἰλήμμεθα / λαβὴν ἄφυκτον, ἀδιάγλυπτονPhrynicus, fragment 20 (vol. III, pp. 58-59):
But we are caught in an unbreakable hold, inescapable.
τηλικουτοσὶ γέρων / ἄπαις ἀγύναικοςPhrynicus, fragment 57 (vol. III, pp. 72-73):
An old man of my generation, childless, wifeless.
ἄσιτος, ἄποτος, ἀναπόνιπτοςTheopompus, fragment 72 (vol. III, pp. 350-351):
Without food, without drink, with hands unwashed.
ἄπνους, ἄνευρος, ἀσθενής, ἀνέντατοςIn volume II of this Loeb Classical Library edition, the passage at the top of p. 289 (continued from the bottom of p. 287) should be printed in italics.
Without breath, without nerve, without strength, without exertion.
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