Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Invitation
Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 677 (tr. Wolfgang de Melo):
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Eat, drink, enjoy yourself with me, and load yourself up with joy.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):
es, bibe, animo opsequere mecum atque onera te hilaritudine.
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.
