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hawkwing_lb) wrote2012-01-21 03:39 pm
hawkwing_lb) wrote2012-01-21 03:39 pm
Euripides, Bacchae, 800-808. Also, karate.
Πενθεύς
ἀπόρῳ γε τῷδε συμπεπλέγμεθα ξένῳ, [800]
ὃς οὔτε πάσχων οὔτε δρῶν σιγήσεται.
Διόνυσος
ὦ τᾶν, ἔτ᾽ ἔστιν εὖ καταστῆσαι τάδε.
Πενθεύς
τί δρῶντα; δουλεύοντα δουλείαις ἐμαῖς;
Διόνυσος
ἐγὼ γυναῖκας δεῦρ᾽ ὅπλων ἄξω δίχα.
Πενθεύς
οἴμοι: τόδ᾽ ἤδη δόλιον ἔς με μηχανᾷ. [805]
Διόνυσος
ποῖόν τι, σῷσαί σ᾽ εἰ θέλω τέχναις ἐμαῖς;
Πενθεύς
ξυνέθεσθε κοινῇ τάδ᾽, ἵνα βακχεύητ᾽ ἀεί.
Διόνυσος
καὶ μὴν ξυνεθέμην--τοῦτό γ᾽ ἔστι--τῷ θεῷ.
Pentheus:
Difficult is this stranger with whom we're entwined,
who neither suffering nor doing keeps silent.
Dionysos:
Mate, it's better to stand like this.
Pentheus:
Doing what? Being a slave to my slavery?
Dionysos:
I will lead the women here, divided from weapons.
Pentheus:
Oh my! This already you're contriving craftily to/against me.
Dionysos:
And what then if I wish to save you by my arts?
Pentheus:
You put this together in common, in order to be revelling forever.
Dionysos:
Of course I put it together - it is indeed this - with the god.
So, karate this morning. I am a rusty black belt, and the measured distance of Shotokan continues to appeal to me less than the up-close-and-personal - and far more effective for close-in fighting - techniques of German jujutsu.
Still, it's exercise, and if I'm qualified to teach it - which I am - I need to damn well be able to do all the kata. Solidly. Without fumbles.
So more practice, though god knows where I'll be able to fit it in.
ἀπόρῳ γε τῷδε συμπεπλέγμεθα ξένῳ, [800]
ὃς οὔτε πάσχων οὔτε δρῶν σιγήσεται.
Διόνυσος
ὦ τᾶν, ἔτ᾽ ἔστιν εὖ καταστῆσαι τάδε.
Πενθεύς
τί δρῶντα; δουλεύοντα δουλείαις ἐμαῖς;
Διόνυσος
ἐγὼ γυναῖκας δεῦρ᾽ ὅπλων ἄξω δίχα.
Πενθεύς
οἴμοι: τόδ᾽ ἤδη δόλιον ἔς με μηχανᾷ. [805]
Διόνυσος
ποῖόν τι, σῷσαί σ᾽ εἰ θέλω τέχναις ἐμαῖς;
Πενθεύς
ξυνέθεσθε κοινῇ τάδ᾽, ἵνα βακχεύητ᾽ ἀεί.
Διόνυσος
καὶ μὴν ξυνεθέμην--τοῦτό γ᾽ ἔστι--τῷ θεῷ.
Pentheus:
Difficult is this stranger with whom we're entwined,
who neither suffering nor doing keeps silent.
Dionysos:
Mate, it's better to stand like this.
Pentheus:
Doing what? Being a slave to my slavery?
Dionysos:
I will lead the women here, divided from weapons.
Pentheus:
Oh my! This already you're contriving craftily to/against me.
Dionysos:
And what then if I wish to save you by my arts?
Pentheus:
You put this together in common, in order to be revelling forever.
Dionysos:
Of course I put it together - it is indeed this - with the god.
So, karate this morning. I am a rusty black belt, and the measured distance of Shotokan continues to appeal to me less than the up-close-and-personal - and far more effective for close-in fighting - techniques of German jujutsu.
Still, it's exercise, and if I'm qualified to teach it - which I am - I need to damn well be able to do all the kata. Solidly. Without fumbles.
So more practice, though god knows where I'll be able to fit it in.
Euripides
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