Thursday, April 28, 2016
More Examples of Asyndetic, Privative Adjectives
Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 149-153 (tr. Alan H. Sommerstein):
Demosthenes, 3rd Philippic 40 = Orations 8.40 (tr. J.H. Vince):
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Let her, the Untamed One,Note the pair of asyndetic, privative adjectives ἄγαμον ἀδάματον (unwedded, unsubdued) in line 153. The asyndeton is obscured by Sommerstein's addition of the conjunction "and."
become the rescuer of us the untamed ones,
so that the offspring of a most august mother
may escape the beds of men—ah, ah!—
unwedded and unsubdued.
ἀδμῆτος ἀδμήτα
ῥύσιος γενέσθω· 150
σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρὸς εὐνὰς
ἀνδρῶν, ἒ ἔ,
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν.
Demosthenes, 3rd Philippic 40 = Orations 8.40 (tr. J.H. Vince):
But all our resources are rendered useless, powerless, worthless by these traffickers.
ἀλλὰ ταῦτ᾿ ἄχρηστα, ἄπρακτα, ἀνόνητα ὑπὸ τῶν πωλούντων γίγνεται.
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