Tuesday, November 26, 2024

 

Invitation

Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 677 (tr. Wolfgang de Melo):
Eat, drink, enjoy yourself with me, and load yourself up with joy.

es, bibe, animo opsequere mecum atque onera te hilaritudine.
J.N. Adams and Veronika Nikitina, "Early Latin Prayers and Aspects of Coordination," in J.N. Adams et al., edd., Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, Reception (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 292-310 (at 306):
possibly a case of end-of-list coordination, but it is better to take eating and drinking as one unit, asyndetic, and indulging one's feelings and being joyful as a second, coordinated.



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