Friday, March 04, 2022
Epitaph of Bacchidas
Werner Peek, Griechische Vers-Inschriften, Vol. I: Grab-Epigramme (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955), p. 409, # 1368 (epitaph of Bacchidas, from Athenaeus 8.336 b, tr. Charles Burton Gulick):
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Drink, eat, indulge in all things the heart's desire!The verbs in the first line are aorist infinitives for imperatives.
For lo! I stand here, a stone to represent Bacchidas.
πιέν, φαγὲν καὶ πάντα τᾷ ψυχᾷ δόμεν·
κἠγὼ γὰρ ἕστακ'ἀντὶ Βακχίδα λίθος.
