Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Whitefeet
Aristophanes, Lysistrata 664-670 (men's chorus; tr. Alan H. Sommerstein):
Jeffrey Henderson on λευκόποδες:
C.T. Seltman, Athens: Its History and Coinage Before the Persian Invasion (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924), pp. 21-22:
Contra Seltman see R.J. Hopper, "A Note on Aristophanes, Lysistrata 665-70,"
Classical Quarterly 10.2 (November, 1960) 242-247.
‹Older
Now come on, you Whitefeet,Sommerstein ad loc.:
we who went against Leipsydrium
when we still were something,
now, now we must become young again and revitalize
our whole body and shake off this old skin of ours.
ἀλλ᾿ ἄγετε λευκόποδες,
οἵπερ ἐπὶ Λειψύδριον 665
ἤλθομεν ὅτ᾿ ἦμεν ἔτι,
νῦν δεῖ, νῦν ἀνηβῆσαι πάλιν κἀναπτερῶσαι
πᾶν τὸ σῶμα κἀποσείσασθαι τὸ γῆρας τόδε. 670
λευκόποδες Hermann: λυκόποδες codd.
