Sunday, April 07, 2024
Folly!
Aristophanes, Knights 350 (tr. Alan H. Sommerstein):
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You fool, what an absurd idea!I understand τῆς ἀνοίας as a simple genitive of exclamation. So apparently do Carl Arne Anderson and T. Keith Dix in their commentary (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020), p. 114, but James Wilson Poultney, The Syntax of the Genitive Case in Aristophanes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1936), p. 124, says it's dependent on μῶρε, which makes no sense to me.
ὦ μῶρε, τῆς ἀνοίας.
