Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Plea for Civility
Aristophanes, Wasps 471-472 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson):
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Might we enter into discussion and compromise without this fighting and shrill screaming?I don't see ἀλλήλοισι explicitly rendered, although maybe it's implicit in "discussion" (cf. Herodotus 1.86.4: τυράννοισι ... ἐς λόγους ἐλθεῖν). I might modify the translation slightly to read:
ἔσθ᾿ ὅπως ἄνευ μάχης καὶ τῆς κατοξείας βοῆς
ἐς λόγους ἔλθοιμεν ἀλλήλοισι καὶ διαλλαγάς;
471 ἄνευ codd.: ἂν ἐκ Hermann
Might we enter into discussion with one another and compromise without this fighting and shrill screaming?
