Wednesday, December 24, 2014
More Hexameters Consisting of Words in Asyndeton
Greek Anthology 5.51 (tr. W.R. Paton):
Greek Anthology 5.135 (an address to a wine-jar; tr. W.R. Paton):
For similar examples in Latin and Greek see:
Newer› ‹Older
I fell in love, I kissed, I was favoured, I enjoyed, I am loved; but who am I, and who is she, and how it befel, Cypris alone knows.The first line, a hexameter, consists entirely of a series of verbs in asyndeton.
ἠράσθην, ἐφίλουν, ἔτυχον, κατέπραξ᾿, ἀγαπῶμαι·
τίς δέ, καὶ ἧς, καὶ πῶς, ἡ θεὸς οἶδε μόνη.
Greek Anthology 5.135 (an address to a wine-jar; tr. W.R. Paton):
Round, well-moulded, one-eared, long-necked, babbling with thy little mouth, merry waitress of Bacchus and the Muses and Cytherea, sweetly-laughing treasuress of our club, why when I am sober are you full and when I get tipsy do you become sober? You don't keep the laws of conviviality.The first line, a hexameter, consists entirely of a series of vocative adjectives in asyndeton.
στρογγύλη, εὐτόρνευτε, μονούατε, μακροτράχηλε,
ὑψαύχην, στεινῷ φθεγγομένη στόματι,
Βάκχου καὶ Μουσέων ἱλαρὴ λάτρι καὶ Κυθερείης,
ἡδύγελως, τερπνὴ συμβολικῶν ταμίη,
τίφθ᾽ ὁπόταν νήφω, μεθύεις σύ μοι, ἢν δὲ μεθυσθῶ,
ἐκνήφεις; ἀδικεῖς συμποτικὴν φιλίην.
For similar examples in Latin and Greek see:
- Some Lines in Lucretius
- Asyndeton Filling Hexameters
- Asyndeton Filling Hexameters in Sidonius
- Verse-Filling Asyndeton
- Verse-Filling Asyndeton: Some Greek Examples
- Another Greek Example of Verse-Filling Asyndeton
- More Examples of Asyndeton Filling Hexameters
- Asyndeton Filling Hexameters in Corippus
- Twelve Gods
- Seven Cities
- A Hexameter Consisting of Nouns in Asyndeton
