Section 9C Greek to English

Question 1

ἀναπείθω

Answer 1

persuade over to one’s side

Question 2

βαρέως φέρω

Answer 2

take badly, find hard to bear

Question 3

δικάζω

Answer 3

be a juror; make a judgement

Question 4

ἐξέρχομαι

Answer 4

go out; come out

Question 5

ἐπεί

Answer 5

when; since

Question 6

καθίζομαι

Answer 6

sit down

Question 7

καθίζω

Answer 7

sit down

Question 8

πλησίον

Answer 8

nearby (+ gen.); near

Question 9

ΞΑΝΘΙΑΣ οὐδέποτ’ ἐξευρήσετε, ὦ θεαταί.

Answer 9

XANTHIAS “You will never find [it] out, spectators.”

Question 10

εἰ δὴ βούλεσθε εἰδέναι τίς ἡ νόσος ἡ τῷ πατρὶ ἐμπεσοῦσα, σιωπᾶτε νῦν.

Answer 10

“Indeed, if you want to know what the illness is that has befallen the father, be silent now.”

Question 11

λέξω γὰρ ὑμῖν ἐν ἀπορίᾳ δὴ οὖσι τὴν τοῦ γέροντος νόσον.

Answer 11

“For I shall tell you, being in perplexity, the illness of the old man.”

Question 12

φιληλιαστής ἐστιν ὥσπερ οὐδεὶς ἀνήρ.

Answer 12

“He is a lover of being a juror in the court of the Eliaia, like no man.”

Question 13

δίκας γὰρ ἀεὶ δικάζει καὶ τὸ δικαστήριον φιλεῖ, …

Answer 13

“For he is always being a juror and loves the law court, …

Question 14

… τῆς μὲν ἡμείρας καζιζόμενος ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ, τῆς δὲ νυκτὸς ὀνειροπολῶν δίκας.

Answer 14

… sitting in the lawcourt during the day and dreaming of cases during the night.”

Question 15

καίτοι οἱ μὲν ἐρασταὶ γράφουσιν ἐν θύρᾳ τινί “Δῆμος καλός,” …

Answer 15

“Indeed, lovers write on the door ‘Demos is beautiful,’ …

Question 16

… οὗτος δὲ ἰδὼν καὶ προσιὼν παραγράφει πλησίον “Κημὸς καλός.”

Answer 16

… but this man, on seeing and approaching, writes alongside nearby ‘Kemos [a voting funnel] is beautiful.’”

Question 17

τοῦτον οὖν φυλάττομεν …

Answer 17

“So we are guarding this man, …

Question 18

…τούτοις τοῖς μοχλοῖς ἐγκλείσαντες, πολλοῖς τε οὖσι καὶ μεγάλοις.

Answer 18

… having shut him in with these bars which are many and big.”

Question 19

ὁ γὰρ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ, ἐπεὶ τὸν πατέρα ἔμαθεν φιλιαστὴν ὄντα, …

Answer 19

“For when his son learned that his father was a lover of being a juror in the lawcourt of the Eliaia, …

Question 20

… τὴν νόσον βαρέως φέρων, …

Answer 20

… finding the illness hard to bear, …

Question 21

… πρῶτον μὲν ἐπειρᾶτο ἀναπείθειν αὐτὸν μὴ ἐξιέναι θύραζε, τοιάδε λέγων·

Answer 21

… first he tried to persuade him not to go out of the house, saying such things:

Question 22

“διὰ τί,” ἦ δ’ ὅς, “ἀεὶ δίκας δικάζεις, ὦ πάτερ, ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ;

Answer 22

… ‘Why,’ he said, ‘do you always judge cases in the lawcourt?’

Question 23

ἆρ’ οὐ παύσῃ ἡλιαστὴς ὤν;

Answer 23

‘Won’t you stop being a juror in the Eliaia court?’

Question 24

ἆρα τῷ σῷ υἱῷ οὐ πείσῃ;

Answer 24

‘Won’t you obey your son?’”

Question 25

ὁ δὲ πατὴρ αὐτῷ μὴ ἐξιέναι ἀναπείθοντι οὐκ ἐπείθετο.

Answer 25

“But the father didn’t obey him persuading [him] not to go out.”

Question 26

εἶτα ὁ ὑιὸς τὸν πατέρα ἐκορυβάντιζεν.

Answer 26

“Then the son introduced the father into the Korybantic rites.”{

Question 27

ὁ δὲ πατήρ, εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον ἐμπεσών, αὐτῷ τῷ τυμπάνῳ ἐδίκαζεν.

Answer 27

“But the father, having fallen [headlong] into the lawcourt, was a juror, drum and all.”

Question 28

ἐντεῦθεν ἔνδον ἐγκλείσαντες αὐτὸν εφυλάττομεν τούτοις τοῖς δικτύοις.

Answer 28

“From that time, having shut him inside, we have been guarding him with these nets.”

Question 29

ἔστι δ’ ὄνομα τῷ μὲν γέροντι Φιλοκλέων, τῷ δ’ υἱῷ γε τούτῳ Βδελυκλέων.

Answer 29

“The name of the old man is Philokleon, while the name of his son is Bdelykleon.”

Question 30

ἀναπείθω

Answer 30

persuade over to one’s side

Question 31

βαρέως φέρω

Answer 31

take badly, find hard to bear

Question 32

δικάζω

Answer 32

be a juror; make a judgement

Question 33

ἐξέρχομαι

Answer 33

go out; come out

Question 34

ἐπεί

Answer 34

when; since

Question 35

καθίζομαι

Answer 35

sit down

Question 36

καθίζω

Answer 36

sit down

Question 37

πλησίον

Answer 37

nearby (+ gen.); near