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Theophrastus · Fragments §109.1

The Goose That Fell in Love with a Boy from Olenus

Passage 114 of 196 · Greek

Summary

In Aegium, a goose falls in love with a boy. Theophrastus reports that this boy was named Amphilochus and came from Olenus.

§109.1Fr. 109 Ἐν Αἰγίῳ παιδὸς ἠράσθη χήν· τὸν δὲ παῖδα τοῦτον Θ. ἐν τῷ Ἐρωτικῷ Ἀμφίλοχον καλεῖσθαί φησι καὶ τὸ γένος Ὠλένιον εἶναι
Fr. 109 In Aegium, a goose fell in love with a boy; and Theophrastus in his Eroticus says that this boy was called Amphilochus, and was Olenian by race.

Notes

  1. §109.1παιδὸς — Genitive governed by the verb ἠράσθη (aorist passive of ἐράω, with active meaning). Verbs of loving in Greek regularly take their object in the genitive case.
  2. §109.1τὸν δὲ παῖδα τοῦτον — The subject accusative in indirect speech, serving as the common subject for the two infinitives καλεῖσθαι and εἶναι governed by the verb φησι.
  3. §109.1τὸ γένος — Accusative of respect (specification), qualifying Ὠλένιον εἶναι, indicating 'by race' or 'in respect of origin'.

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Theophrastus, Fragments §109.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg010x09.humanitext-grc1:109.1

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