[B-Greek] Homer

Ed Garcia Ed.Garcia at FHLBTopeka.com
Tue May 9 11:31:17 EDT 2006


Hello to the group.

In order to improve our overall understanding of Greek some friends and
I have taken a break from Koine and are working through Clyde Pharr's
Homeric Greek for Beginners. But we are puzzled about a certain passage.
In Pharr's book they are lines 169b-171 of the Iliad.

Below are the lines in question, I hope I have presented them correctly.



---------------------------- EPEI H POLU FERTERON ESTIN

OIKAD' IMEN SUN NHUSI KORWNISIN, OUDE S' OIW

ENQAD' ATIMOS EWN AQENOS KAI PLOUTON AFUXEIN.

The section that puzzles us is the following:  OUDE S' OIW ENQAD' ATIMOS
EWN 

We consulted several translations and what puzzles us is that most seem
to ignore the OUDE and though we can translate OIW (hopefully correctly)
as "I think" or "consider". We don't see either "I think", "consider" or
any words like them in any of the translations we consulted. One typical
translation we consulted was by Samuel Butler "it will be much better
for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here
dishonoured to gather gold and substance for you."

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Ed Garcia
Kansas

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