Section 4B English to Greek

Question 1

dishonor; hold in dishonor

Answer 1

ἀτιμάζω

Question 2

master

Answer 2

δεσπότης, ὁ

Question 3

destroy, kill

Answer 3

διαφθείρω

Question 4

god (goddess)

Answer 4

θεός, ὁ, ἡ

Question 5

mortal

Answer 5

θνητός, ή, όν

Question 6

prevent, stop

Answer 6

κωλύω

Question 7

especially; particularly; yes

Answer 7

μάλιστα

Question 8

corpse

Answer 8

νεκρός, ὁ

Question 9

law; convention

Answer 9

νόμος, ὁ

Question 10

plague, disease

Answer 10

νόσος, ὁ

Question 11

funeral pyre

Answer 11

πυρά, ἡ

Question 12

honor (noun)

Answer 12

τῑμάω

Question 13

strike, hit

Answer 13

τύπτω

Question 14

carry, bear

Answer 14

φέρω

Question 15

fear (noun)

Answer 15

φόβος, ὁ

Question 16

YOUNG MAN Look, a pyre. Come here, boy, quickly!

Answer 16

ΝΕΑΝΙΑΣ ἰδιου, πυρά. δεὖρ’ ἐλθέ, ὦ παῖ, ταχέως.

Question 17

SLAVE Wait, master, wait and don’t hurry.

Answer 17

ΔΟΥΛΟΣ μένε, ὦ δέσποτα, μένε καὶ μὴ σπεῦδε.

Question 18

For this corpse is heavy, and as it’s heavy, I’m carrying it slowly.

Answer 18

βαρὺς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ νεκρὸς οὗτος, βαρὺν δ’ ὄντα βραδέως δὴ φέρω ἔγωγε.

Question 19

DIKAIOPOLIS What are you saying? Are you carrying a corpse?

Answer 19

ΔΙΚ. (overhearing) τί φῇς; νεκρόν τινα φέρεις;

Question 20

Y.M. Come on, boy, throw the corpse onto the pyre.

Answer 20

ΝΕΑΝ. (ignoring Dikaiopolis) ἄγε νυν, ὦ παῖ, ἐπίβαλλε τὸν νεκρὸν ἐπὶ τὴν πυρὰν ταύτην.

Question 21

DIK. But what are you doing?

Answer 21

ΔΙΚ. (shocked, comes forward) ἀλλὰ τί ποιεῖτε;

Question 22

Don’t do this, by the gods. Stop!

Answer 22

μὴ ποιεῖτε τοῦτο, πρὸς θεῶν. παύεσθε.

Question 23

Y.M. Don’t get in my way, fellow.

Answer 23

ΝΕΑΝ. (turns angrily on Dikaiopolis and hits him) μὴ κώλυε, ὦ ’νθρωπε.

Question 24

DIK. Foul [man]! Are you hitting me, a citizen?

Answer 24

ΔΙΚ. ὦ μίαρε, τύπτεις ἐμὲ πολίτην ὄντα;

Question 25

What aggressive behavior! Don’t hit [me].

Answer 25

ὢ τῆς ὕβρεως. μὴ τύπτε.

Question 26

OLD MAN What’s this?

Answer 26

ΓΕΡΩΝ (comes out of his shack) τί τὸ πρᾶγμα;

Question 27

What are these shouts?

Answer 27

τίνες αἱ βοαί;

Question 28

You there, what are you doing?

Answer 28

οὗτος, τί ποιεῖς;

Question 29

Are you hitting a citizen?

Answer 29

τύπτεις πολίτην;

Question 30

What lawlessness! stop!

Answer 30

ὢ τῆς ἀνομίας. παῦε.

Question 31

Alas, what’s this?

Answer 31

οἴμοι, τί τοῦτο;

Question 32

Are you throwing a corpse onto the pyre?

Answer 32

νεκρὸν ἐπιβάλλεις ἐπ’ ἐκείνην τὴν πυράν;

Question 33

What irreverence! stop!

Answer 33

ὢ τῆς ἀσεβείας. παῦε —

Question 34

Y.M. Don’t get in my way, old man.

Answer 34

ΝΕΑΝ. (threateningly) μὴ κώλυε, ὦ γέρον.

Question 35

O.M. But today I am burying my son, and it is my pyre.

Answer 35

ΓΕΡ. ἀλλὰ θάπτω τήμερον τὸν ἐμὸν υἱόν, καὶ ἐμὴ ἡ πυρά.

Question 36

Y. M. I myself don’t care.

Answer 36

ΝΕΑΝ. οὐ φροντίζω ἔγωγε.

Question 37

O. M. Do you not reverence the gods?

Answer 37

ΓΕΡ. ἆρ’ οὐ σέβῃ τοὺς θεούς;

Question 38

Do you not honor the laws of man?

Answer 38

ἆρ’ οὐ τιμᾷς τοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων νόμους;

Question 39

Does nothing stop you, neither fear of the gods nor the laws of men?

Answer 39

ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν κωλύει σε, οὔτε θεῶν φ́οβος οὔτε ἀνθρώπων νόμος;

Question 40

Y. M. What are you saying?

Answer 40

ΝΕΑΝ. τί φής;

Question 41

Corpses are falling upon corpses, men are dying like flies in their homes and in the temples.

Answer 41

νεκροὶ ἐπὶ νεκροῖς πίπτουσιν, ἀποθνῄσκουσι τ’ οἱ ἄνθρωποι ὥσπερ πρόβατα ἐν ταῖς οἰκίαις καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς.

Question 42

Do you speak to me of gods and laws?

Answer 42

σὺ δὲ μοι θεοὺς λέγεις καὶ νόμους;

Question 43

You fool—

Answer 43

ὦ μῶρε σύ —

Question 44

the gods either don’t exist or don’t care about us, …

Answer 44

— οἱ γὰρ θεοὶ ἢ οὐκ εἰσὶν ἢ οὐ φροντίζουσιν ἡμῶν, …

Question 45

since the plague is destroying both the pious and the impious alike.

Answer 45

… ἐπειδὴ ἡ νόσος διαφθείρει τούς τε εὐσεβεῖς ἅμα καὶ τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς.

Question 46

Where are my mother and father, who were always pious?

Answer 46

ποῦ γὰρ ἡ ἐμὴ μήτηρ καὶ ὁ πατήρ, εὐσεβοῦντες ἀεί;

Question 47

Now where is my brother, the most pious of men? Look.

Answer 47

νῦν δὲ ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ ἀδελφός, εὐσεβέστατος ἀνθρώπων ὤν; ἰδού.

Question 48

And don’t talk to me about laws and aggressive behavior.

Answer 48

(points to the corpse) καὶ μή μοι λέγε περὶ νόμων καὶ ὕβρεως.

Question 49

For I’m not afraid of punishment.

Answer 49

οὐ γὰρ φοβοῦμαι τὴν κόλασιν.

Question 50

Don’t you know that men are short-lived?

Answer 50

ἢ οὐκ οἶσθα ὅτι ἐφήμεροι οἱ ἄνθρωποι;

Question 51

What are we? What are we not?

Answer 51

τί δ’ ἐσμέν; τί δ’ οὐκ ἐσμέν;

Question 52

“Man is the dream of a shadow.”

Answer 52

“σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος.”

Question 53

O.M. Stop, stop! You are dishonoring the gods, though you are a mortal.

Answer 53

(The young man sets light to the pyre) ΓΕΡ. παῦ, παῦε. ἀτιμάζεις γὰρ τοὺς θεούς, θνητὸς ὤν.

Question 54

Y. M. But I don’t dishonor the gods.

Answer 54

ΝΕΑΝ. ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀτιμάζω τοὺ θεοὺς ἔγωγε.

Question 55

I honor Aphrodite particularly.

Answer 55

τιμῶ γὰρ μάλιστα τὴν Ἀφροδίτην.

Question 56

She is a beautiful and kindly goddess.

Answer 56

καλὴ γὰρ καὶ εὔφρων ἡ θεός.

Question 57

Since the goddess is beautiful and kindly, she makes life happy.

Answer 57

καλὴ γὰρ καὶ εὔφων οὗσα ἡ θεός, εὐδαίμονα ποιεῖ τὸν βίον.

Question 58

So I’m turning to Aphrodite and pleasure, because they are fine.

Answer 58

ἐγὼ οὖν πρὸς Ἀφροδίτην τρέπομαι καὶ τὴν ἡδονήν, καλὰς οὔσας.

Question 59

DIK. Are you surprised, rhapsode, that I hate the city because I am a farmer, and long for my own deme?

Answer 59

(He goes off, helped by the slave). ΔΙΚ. ἆρα θαυμάζεις, ὦ ῥαψῃδέ, ὅτι τὸ ἄστυ μισῶ, γεωργὸς ὤν, καὶ τὸν ἐμὸν δῆμον ποθῶ;

Question 60

For in the city there is nothing other than lawlessness and impiety and plague and a great quantity of corpses.

Answer 60

ἐν γὰρ τῇ πόλει οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ ἀνομία καὶ ἀσέβεια καὶ νόσος καὶ πολὺ τῶν νεκρῶν πλῆθος.

Question 61

dishonor; hold in dishonor

Answer 61

ἀτιμάζω

Question 62

master

Answer 62

δεσπότης, ὁ

Question 63

destroy, kill

Answer 63

διαφθείρω

Question 64

god (goddess)

Answer 64

θεός, ὁ, ἡ

Question 65

mortal

Answer 65

θνητός, ή, όν

Question 66

prevent, stop

Answer 66

κωλύω

Question 67

especially; particularly; yes

Answer 67

μάλιστα

Question 68

corpse

Answer 68

νεκρός, ὁ

Question 69

law; convention

Answer 69

νόμος, ὁ

Question 70

plague, disease

Answer 70

νόσος, ὁ

Question 71

funeral pyre

Answer 71

πυρά, ἡ

Question 72

honor (noun)

Answer 72

τῑμάω

Question 73

strike, hit

Answer 73

τύπτω

Question 74

carry, bear

Answer 74

φέρω

Question 75

fear (noun)

Answer 75

φόβος, ὁ