[B-Greek] interlinear anxiety

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Feb 17 12:44:12 EST 2010


On Feb 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, James Ernest wrote:
>> lol. A brilliant example of the "argumentum ad quondam hominem."
> 
> (or, as some texts called it, the "reductio ad eunuchum")

Or, as Oedipus lamented shortly before his mysterious passing at Colonus OC 393:

Ὅτ’ οὐκέτ’ εἰμί, τηνικαῦτ’ ἄρ’ εἴμ’ ἀνήρ; 
hOT' OUKET' EIMI, THNIKAUT' AR' EIM' ANHR?

More or less: "I'm supposed to be a man's man when I'm no longer anything?"

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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