Choliambs, or Scazons, Hipponax
wounded iambs
halting limping iambs
maimed
imperfect
defective
but not necessarily enraged
but possibly enraged
"Keep going, monster, all the long way to Smyrna.
Pass through Lydia and past the tomb of Attales,
the grave of king Gyges and the stele of Megastrys,
the funereal monument of Atys, and King of Attalyda,
and turn your belly to the sinking sun."
the translation is Barnstone's
where I can find a free pdf of Diehl I know not
at this hour
but I found one of Bergk, Theodorus,Poetae Lyrici Graeci, Lipsiae 1843
Sumptu-Reichenbachiorum-fratrum
but for 'monster'
Bergk reads 'friend'
wounded iambs
halting limping iambs
maimed
imperfect
defective
but not necessarily enraged
but possibly enraged
"Keep going, monster, all the long way to Smyrna.
Pass through Lydia and past the tomb of Attales,
the grave of king Gyges and the stele of Megastrys,
the funereal monument of Atys, and King of Attalyda,
and turn your belly to the sinking sun."
the translation is Barnstone's
where I can find a free pdf of Diehl I know not
at this hour
but I found one of Bergk, Theodorus,Poetae Lyrici Graeci, Lipsiae 1843
Sumptu-Reichenbachiorum-fratrum
but for 'monster'
Bergk reads 'friend'
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