Swallow Song Two Notes and Draft

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Next installment a more polished version!

This is a rough DRAFT with Notes

SWALLOW SONG

Source Lyra Graeca and other D. Campbell texts

Recorded byAthenaeus in Doctors at dinner

citing a book by Theognis on Rhodian Festivals

Note Dialect is Doric

ἦλθ̓ ἦλθ̓ χελιδὼν (she) comes comes aorist swallow

καλὰς ὥρας ἄγουσα, fine seasons / hours times – as ending doric bringing

καλοὺς ἐνιαυτούς, fine years plural returning again ?

ἐπὶ γαστέρα λευκά, upon stomach belly white

ἐπὶ νῶτα μέλαινα. upon back black (swallows b+w)

παλάθαν σὺ προκύκλει cakes you roll out

prob preserved pressed fig or dried fruits

ἐκ πίονος οἴκου out of ??? house

pionos fat oily rich in slang ?

οἴνου τε δέπαστρον of wine and cup/ and cup of wine

depastron < depas

τυροῦ τε κάνυστρον. Of cheese and basket a basket of cheese

usually a not u cane / wicker baskets

καὶ πύρνα χελιδὼν and wheat loaves (for) swallow

καὶ λεκιθίταν and pulse “bread'” some kind of bean cake

or porridge served cooked in pan

οὐκ ἀπωθεῖται. πότεῤ ἀπίωμες ἢ λαβώμεθα;

not you it drive away apootheoo whether or not will we get

• mes ending doric apeimi nor will we go away

εἰ μέν τι δώσεις. εἰ δὲ μή, οὐκ ἐάσομες.

If any u give if and not we will not relaese let go

ἢ τὰν θύραν ϕέρωμες ἢ τὸ ὑπέρθυμρον

neither or the door we will carry away subjunctive / future or the lintel?

ἢ τὰν γυναῖκα τὰν ἔσω καθημέναν.

Or the woman wife inside sitting ?

μικρὰ μέν ἐστι, ῥᾳδίως νιν οἴσομες.

Small little she is easily nin =ionic min it her him enclitic form autos

fut form of pheroo we will carry away

ἄν δὴ φέρῃς τι, μέγα δή τι φέροις.

anything whatever you bear to us let it be big

ἄνοιγ̓ ἄνοιγε τὰν θύραν χελιδόνι.

Open open fut form The door to swallow

οὐ γὰρ γέροντές ἐσμεν, ἀλλὰ παιδία.

Not for elders we are but children