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Callimachus · Iambs §17.1

Rebuke of the Interlocutor for Empty Nonsense

Passage 18 of 22 · Greek

Summary

The speaker points out and criticizes the interlocutor for talking great nonsense or empty vanity at present.

§17.1τὰ νῦν δὲ πολλὴν τυφεδῶνα λεσχαίνεις.
But now you are babbling much empty vanity.

Notes

  1. §17.1τὰ νῦν — Adverbial accusative of time, meaning "now" or "at present."
  2. §17.1πολλὴν τυφεδῶνα λεσχαίνεις — The verb λεσχαίνω (to prate, babble) is originally intransitive, but here it takes πολλὴν τυφεδῶνα (much empty vanity/nonsense) as an internal or cognate accusative, functioning transitively to mean "to babble vanity."

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Callimachus, Iambs §17.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0533.tlg007.humanitext-grc1:17.1

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