12I English to Greek Flashcards
at Athens
Ἀθήνησι(ν)
hope, expectation
ἐλπίς, ἐλπίδος, ἡ
come to town, be in town
ἐπιδημέω
work, perform
ἐργάζομαι
put down, pay, perform
κατατίθημι (καταθε- )
small house
οἰκίδιον, τό
take, receive from
παραλαμβάνω
This Stephanos filled Neaira with great hope in Megara by this promise.
ὁ δὲ Στέφανος οὑτοσὶ εἰς μεγίστην ἐλπίδα κατέστησε Νέαιραν ἐν τοῖς Μεγάροις τῷ λόγῳ.
For he boasted that Phrynion would never touch her, and that he himself would take her as his wife.
ἐκόμπαζε γὰρ τὸν μὲν Φρυνίωνα οὐχ ἅψεσθαι αὐτῆς οὐδέποτε, αὐτὸς δὲ γυναῖκα αὐτὴν ἕξειν.
And he said that her children would be introduced into the phratries as if they were his own, …
ἔφη δὲ καὶ τοὺς παῖδας αὐτῆς εἰσαχθήσεσθαι εἰς τοὺς φράτερας ὡς αὑτοῦ ὄντας, …
… and they would become citizens, …
… καὶ πολίτας γενήσεσθαι, …
… and she would not be harmed by anyone.
… ἀδικηθήσεσθαι δ’ αὐτὴν ὑπ’ οὐδένος ἀνθρώπων.
Having said this he arrived here from Megara, bringing her with him, …
ταῦτα δ’ εἰπών ἀφικνεῖται αὐτὴν ἔχων δεῦρο ἐκ τῶν Μεγάρων, …
… and her three children with her, Proxenos and Ariston and a girl child who is now called Phano.
… καὶ παιδία μετ’ αὐτῆς τρία, Πρόξενον καὶ Ἀρίστωνα καὶ παῖδα κόρην, ἥ νυνὶ Φανὼ καλεῖται.
And he brought her and the children to a little house which he had in Athens next to the Whisperer Hermes, …
καὶ εἰσάγει αὐτὴν καὶ τὰ παιδία εἰς τὸ οἰκίδιον ὃ ἦν αὐτῷ Ἀθήνησι παρὰ τὸν ψιθυριστὴν Ἐρμῆν, …