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ΑRCHILOCHUS: ΤΕΤΤΙΞ: Τ, Ε, Ι, Ξ
different people are warmed at heart by different things 25
ΤΛΗΜΟΣΥΝΗ 13 endurance/ ΤΑΧΙΣΤΑ (with haste 13)/ ΤΛΗΤΕ (endure)/ ΤΕ (and)
ΤΕΛΕΣΙΚΛΗΣ / ΤΑΙΝΑΡΟΥ / ΤΕΘΑΠΤΑΙ ( Telesikles / Buried / Tainaron)
ΙΜΕΡΟΣ (desire) -ΙΑΜΒOΣ (iambus)- ΙΟΝ (mouths, poison) / ΙΣΜΑΡΙΚΟΣ (Ismarian 2) / ΙΗΣΟΜΑΙ (cure
11) /ΙΔΡΙΣ (skilled, 35)/ ΙΚΜΑΔΑ (moisture 41)/ ΙΜΕΙΡΟΝΤΕΣ ΜΕΓ’ (greatly desiring 89)/ ΙΣΧΟΥΣΙΝ
(hold back 89)/ ΙΣΤΑΤΑΙ ΚΥΚΩΜΕΝΟΝ (stands churned up 106)/ ΙΣΤΙΩΝ (sails 106)/ ΙΛΑΟΣ/ ΙΔΕΙΝ
(see)/ ΙΣΗΝ (equal) / ΙΜΕΡΤΗ ΠΑΡΟΣ (longed for Paros 166)/ ΙΔΡΥΣΑΜΕΝΟΙ (founded)
ΕΡΕΩ (to hear)/ ΕΠΟΧΗ (season)/ ΕΑ ΕΚΕΙΝΑ (good-bye to them) / ΕΦΗΜΕΡΟΣ (ephemeral)/ ΕΣΘΛΗΝ
ΕΠΙΘΥΜΙΑ (desire-good cure 67)
ΞΥΜΒΑΛΛΕΙΝ ΞΙΦΕΩΝ (swords 3) ΞΕΙΝΟΣ (stranger) ΞΕΙΝΙΑ (guest-gifts 6) ΞΥΝ’ (public 93a) ΞΥΝΟΣ
(110 impartial) ΞΥΝΟΣ ΑΡΗΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΙΣ (148 Ares is impartial towards men)
war is shared among men
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Ι
Ε
Ξ
ARCH.222.Et.Gud.co/390.42Stuzz
_μήδεα: the genitals. From μέδειν (“to rule over”) and to begin
procreation we have <*μέδεα>, and, with exchange of delta and
zeta, μέζεα. … or also <μέζεα, the> middle parts of the body. Cf.
Hesiod, “they put their tales under their genitals”, and Archilo-
chus: “severed the sinews of (the middle) parts”
_Medea: vaginas. From medein: ruling/having power over birth.
Also, mezea by transposition of z for d, with the accent on either
syllable, meaning the middle parts of the body, the middle por-
tion of it. The middle parts, the tasty ones.
_The vagina: appetizers. From mezea (ancient greek) i.e. the mid-
dle parts ruling over reproduction and mezea (turkish) appetiz-
ers, with the diminutive ending meze-dakia.
Small appetizers in the middle of the body
Which rule over reproduction
_
oshizemi mo naku semihodo wa iru naramu
唖蝉も鳴く蝉ほどはゐるならむ
山口青邨
all these voiceless cicadas
cannot possibly match the ones
singing
do enough silent females
exist for the singing ones?
YAMAGUCHI SEISON
all the silent females
will not be enough
for so many cicada singers
Τ Ε Τ Τ Ι Ξ :
Ε Κ
Τ Ε Τ Τ I X : F R O M
Cicadas I - Archilochus
the ivy leaves play in the breeze
the apples turn red on the branches
and then they fall
the mouth is cram packed with words
Cicadas
together with the sound of a cement mixer
and the ants
that used to parade on the wall
whole armies of them
now trace
solitary sojourns
on our dinner table
you have piled pears
in the basket to ripen
you are speaking of comrades
and the shield you dropped
in the game of love
speaks of your valorous defeat
it signifies that truly
through the ivy the sea
does signal to you
puzzled distant turbulent
Archilochus, vibrant teasing
sensuous, ironic poignant
summery
a cicada out of sync
Pindar, meter, submission to fate
and to the god of posterity, a serious hoarder
wintry
the ant
the mercenary - an actor
in the drama
and the chorus
will this many silent females
be enough, one wonders,
for all these here singers?
TZETZES, Chiliades, 8. 166.63-64
And only under the sun does the cicada sing
in cold weather it goes silent and the song is
over. All female cicadas are voiceless from
birth for the chastisement of women though
they remain heedless