From danielrr@eresmas.net Fri Oct 11 04:40:43 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g9BBegFD068244 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 04:40:42 -0700 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Oct 11 04:40:42 2002 -0700 Received: from smtppre.eresmas.com ([62.81.160.244]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g9BBednf016623 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 04:40:40 -0700 Received: from [62.174.120.187] ([62.174.120.187]) by smtppre.eresmas.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H3TF3O02.O7E for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:40:36 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: idd00i7w@pop.eresmas.net Message-Id: Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:40:28 +0200 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Daniel Riaño Subject: Burn the muses Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In Vita Aesopi G 30 (Perry, Papathomopulos) we read the following (the female slaves of Xanthus are quarrelling inside the house about what they suppose is a new, beautiful male slave waiting, but one of them discovers it is in reality ugly Aesop who awaits outside; outraged, she enters the room and shouts her fellow slaves:) ti/ ou)k e)mpuri/zw au)ta/s, kora/sia, ta\s Mou/sas u(mw=n? ti/ pukteu/ete ktl. Which I suppose can be translated like "Why I don't burn your muses, girls? Why do you fight..." But Ferrari offers a very interesting proposal: ti/ ou)k e)mpuri/zw au)ta/s? kora/sia, ta\s Mou/sas u(mw=n, ti/ pukteu/ete... "Why I don't burn you? By the Muses, girls, why do you fight...? (Perché non le mando al rogo?- Ragazze, per le vostre Muse, perché continuate... Ferrari's conjecture seems inescapable, but I don't think Perry or Papathomopulos passed by the text without considering the strange "burn the muses" question. Does anybody knows of some parallel for such expression? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas Madrid, España .