Re: Odp: Request for help

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From: JoatSimeon@...

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 9:10 AM

Subject: [cybalist] Re: Request for help

I need a Classical Greek (or better yet Homeric, if anyone can do it) translation of the phrase: "God gave teeth; God will give bread." Can anyone help me with that? E-mail would be fine. Yours, S.M. Stirling

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Here's my suggestion:

Ho theos edo:ken odontas, ho theos do:sei artou.

Homer would not have used any articles, perhaps omitting the augment in edo:ke as well and performing some other tricks in order to mould the sentence into a perfect hexametric line, e.g.:
Ho:s theos do:ken odontas, do:sei de: theos artou.

[o: = omega, e: = eta, accent diacritics ignored]

I hope Sabine or some other accomplished Classic scholar corrects my self-taught Greek if there's anything wrong with it.

 

My best regards,

Piotr