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From: "Steven J. Willett" <willett@suac.ac.jp>
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On 31 May 2003 at 10:46, Ren=E9 Forrez wrote:

> could anyone on the list help me with the following sentence in
> Palladas' poem in A.G. X,45:
> 
> 
> 
> <fontfamily><param>Athenian</param>to=CBto m=A2n o=CFtvw e=89p' =EAn tiw=
 kosm=ABn
> pl=E3smati semnot=B0r=83. 
> 
> 
> </fontfamily>(touto ... semnoterooi)

Palladas sets up a cynical contrast between the idealizing Platonism of 
the addressee, who loftily (if naively) believes he's "immortal" and a 
"heavenly plant," and the physical reality that he's made of dust.  "Why 
think proudly?" (Ti phroneis mega;), Palladas asks: "One might of 
course say this sort of thing, embroidering [the sexual facts] with 
magniloquent fiction.  But if you seek the true explanation, you spring 
from unbridled lust and a filthy drop."  The sentence you're asking about 
literally reads, "Thus one might say this sort of thing, ornamenting [the 
facts] with a magniloquent forgery."  Palladas achieves a pithy 
compression by omitting any direct object to "kosmwn," but directly 
expresses its semantic gist in the final prepositional phrase: unbridled 
lust and a filthy drop.  The strong enjambment on "ex akolastou/ 
lagneias, ... " foregrounds--as theorists like to say--"lagneia."      

Among several others in the same vein are

Ghs epebhn gumnos, gumnos 8' 'upo gaian apeimi,
   kai ti mathn mokh8w, gumnon 'orwn to telos?

Skhnh pas 'o bios kai paignion; h ma8e paizdein
   thn spoudhn meta8eis, h phere tas odunas.

Polla laleis, an8rwpe, khamai de ti8hi meta mikron;
   siga, kai meleta zdwn eti ton 8anaton.   
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Steven J. Willett
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