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Butler: "My own wife, do not take these things too bitterly to heart" It seems to me that most of the other translations I can find are closer to the Wilson tr
by InitialLastName 3y ago
Butler: "My own wife, do not take these things too bitterly to heart"
It seems to me that most of the other translations I can find are closer to the Wilson translation. I don't know any version of Greek, but the name Andromache doesn't appear in that line (book 6 line 486) at all, and nobody else seems to interpret the line as a rhetorical question.
All this just to say, maybe Wilson's is closer to the original text?
- thisisauserid 3y agoGreat points. It still seems odd to me that she left Lattimore out when he's so often praised (on HN anyway).
- theoldlove 3y agoYeah the Greek here is (Il. 6.486): δαιμονίη μή μοί τι λίην ἀκαχίζεο θυμῷ: δαιμονίη is of disputed meaning, but basically a literal translation might run: Possessed woman, don’t be so upset in your heart for me. Here Lattimore doesn’t look so good.