Laudator Temporis Acti: Husband to Wife

Husband to Wife

Homer, Iliad 14.314 (Zeus to Hera; tr. A.T. Murray, rev. William F. Wyatt):

But for us two, come, let us take our joy bedded together in love.

νῶι δ᾿ ἄγ᾿ ἐν φιλότητι τραπείομεν εὐνηθέντε.

τραπείομεν is from τέρπω, not τρέπω, but Richmond Lattimore's rendering makes me wonder if he confused the two:

But now let us go to bed and turn to love-making.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 11:45 AM

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