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διδασκαλία |
teaching, instruction διδασκάλια noun sg fem nom |
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φωνή |
sound, tone φωνῇ noun sg fem dat attic epic ionic |
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μεταβάλλω |
throw into a different position, turn quickly, alter μετέβαλον verb 3rd pl aor ind act verb 1st sg aor ind act |
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ῥυθμός |
any regular recurring motion ῥυθμόν noun sg masc acc |
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μετὰ δὲ χρόνου προβαίνοντος ἅμα τῇ φωνῇ μετέβαλον καὶ τὸν ῥυθμὸν τῶνγραμμάτων. |
after time they had led in at the same time altering the sunds and the rhythm of letters. |
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περιοικέω |
dwell round περιοίκεον part sg pres act neut nom/acc verb 1st sg imperf ind act verb 3rd pl imperf ind act |
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διδαχή |
teaching διδαχῇ noun sg fem dat |
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μεταρρυθμίζω |
change the form μεταρρυθμίσαντες part pl aor act masc nom |
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φατίζω |
tell of, ἐφάτισαν verb 3rd pl aor ind act |
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χράομαι |
consulting, writing, writing on? ἐχρέωντο verb 3rd pl imperf ind mp verb 3rd pl plup ind mp |
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φέρω |
fero, to bear ἔφερε verb 3rd sg imperf ind act |
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Περιοίκεον δέ σφεας τὰ πολλὰ τῶν χώρων τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον Ἑλλήνων Ἴωνες· οἳ παραλαβόντες διδαχῇ παρὰ τῶν Φοινίκων τὰ γράμματα, |
During this time the Ionians Greeks (Part. Gen.) lived around them most of the places (add ειμι here somewhere?). heaing received from the Phoenicians the letters by teaching, |
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μεταρρυθμίσαντές σφεων ὀλίγα ἐχρέωντο, χρεώμενοι δὲ ἐφάτισαν, ὥσπερ καὶ τὸ δίκαιον ἔφερε ἐσαγαγόντων Φοινίκων ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα, φοινικήια κεκλῆσθαι. |
having changed the form of them a little they were furnished with them, proclaiming they told of them even as the truth was bearing of having been led in by the Phoenicians to the Greeks, they spoke of them by the name of Phoenician |
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αἴγεος |
a goat's skin αἰγέῃσι adj pl fem dat |
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οἴεος |
from a sheep οἰέῃσι adj pl fem dat |
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σπάνις |
scarcity, dearth, lack σπάνι noun sg fem dat |
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πότε |
when? at what time? κοτέ pron |
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παλαιός
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old in years παλαιοῦ adj sg masc/neut gen |
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διφθέρα |
prepared hide, piece of leather διφθέρας noun sg fem gen noun pl fem acc |
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Καὶ τὰς βύβλους διφθέρας καλέουσι ἀπὸ τοῦ παλαιοῦ οἱ Ἴωνες, ὅτι κοτὲ ἐν σπάνι βύβλωνἐχρέωντο διφθέρῃσι αἰγέῃσί τε καὶ οἰέῃσι· ἔτι δὲ καὶ τὸ κατ' ἐμὲ πολλοὶ τῶν βαρβάρων ἐς τοιαύτας διφθέρας γράφουσι. |
And the Ionians from old times called the papyrus papers (τὰς βύβλους διφθέρας) because in the scarcity of papyrus (pl) they wrote on the skin of sheep and goats, and yet in my time (ἐμὲ) most of the barbarians write on such skins |