ὁ ᾿Ιάβερουακ

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Jonathan Robie
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ὁ ᾿Ιάβερουακ

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cwconrad wrote:We do expect ordinary Greek to be pretty much like Dr. Seuss, don't we? :D
Or more like Lewis Carroll?
TON IABEROUAK KATEKTONAS?
S' ASPAZOMAI, FAEINE PAI!
KALWN KALLISTH hHMERWN!"
ECAIRE KAGKAZWN.
HN BRILLIG, hAI D' APOSTROFAI
GURWSAI OUABON HSTRAPTON,
hHSUCASAN MEN BORGOBOI,
MWMRHS D' EXESTHSAN.
ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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Re: ὁ ᾿Ιάβερουακ

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Jonathan Robie wrote:
cwconrad wrote:We do expect ordinary Greek to be pretty much like Dr. Seuss, don't we? :D
Or more like Lewis Carroll?
TON IABEROUAK KATEKTONAS?
S' ASPAZOMAI, FAEINE PAI!
KALWN KALLISTH hHMERWN!"
ECAIRE KAGKAZWN.
HN BRILLIG, hAI D' APOSTROFAI
GURWSAI OUABON HSTRAPTON,
hHSUCASAN MEN BORGOBOI,
MWMRHS D' EXESTHSAN.
Wow! December 8, 1996! That was a fun Saturday afternoon.
No need now for transliteration; let's reformulate it:

"τὸν ᾿Ιάβερουακ κατέκτονας;
σ’ ἀσπάζομαι, φαείνε παῖ!
καλῶν καλλίστη ἡμερῶν!"
ἔχαιρε καγχάζων.

ἦν βρίλλιγ, αἱ δ’ ἀπστροφαι
γυρῶσαι οὐᾶβον, ἤστραπτον.
ἡσύχασαν μὲν βόργοβοι,
μωμρεῖς δ’ ἐξέστησαν.
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)

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