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Callimachus · Iambs §5.1

Satire on Euhemerus and Accompanying Note

Passage 6 of 22 · Greek

Summary

A passage from Callimachus of Cyrene's Iambi satirizing Euhemerus as a bragging old man who fabricated the Panchaean Zeus, along with an introductory scholarly prose note.

§5.1ἐς τὸ πρὸ τείχευς ἱρὸν ἁλέες δεῦτε, οὗ τὸν πάλαι Παγχαῖον ὁ πλάσας Ζᾶνα γέρων ἀλάζων ἄδικα βιβλία ψήχει.
Come all together to the temple before the wall, where the bragging old man, who once fabricated the Panchaean Zeus, is scraping his unjust books.
¹ "τὸν δ’ Εὐήμερον καὶ Καλλίμαχος ὁ Κυρηναῖος αἰνίττεται ἐν τοῖς Ἰάμβοις γράφων· " εἰς τὸ πρὸ κτλ.
"And Euhemerus also, Callimachus of Cyrene alludes to, writing in his Iambi:" To the [temple] before, etc.
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Notes

  1. 5.1τείχευς — The genitive singular form in the Ionic dialect of the neuter noun τεῖχος (wall), which would normally be τείχους. Dependent on the preposition πρὸ (before), the phrase is placed attributively between the article τὸ and the noun ἱρὸν.
  2. 5.1Ζᾶνα — The accusative form of the proper name Ζεύς (Zeus), here in the Doric dialect (normally Δία, or poetically Ζῆνα). It functions as the direct object of the active participle ὁ πλάσας (the one who fabricated).
  3. 5.1τὸν δ’ Εὐήμερον — In the prose quotation, this is the direct object (accusative) of the subsequent verb αἰνίττεται (allude to, satirize), placed at the very beginning of the sentence for emphasis.

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Callimachus, Iambs §5.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0533.tlg007.humanitext-grc1:5.1

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