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
