Enchiridion [Sentence 079]

Text and Analysis

14.01.001

ἐὰν

ἐάν

conjunction

14.01.002

θέλῃς

ἐθέλω

verb

PAS.2S

you wish

14.01.003

τὰ

ὁ

article

SPN

the

14.01.004

τέκνα

τέκνον

noun

SPN

child

14.01.005

σου

σύ

pronoun

GS-2

of you

14.01.006

καὶ

καί

conjunction

and

14.01.007

τὴν

ὁ

article

ASF

the

14.01.008

γυναῖκα

γυνή

noun

ASF

wife

14.01.009

καὶ

καί

conjunction

and

14.01.010

τοὺς

ὁ

article

APM

the

14.01.011

φίλους

φῖλος

noun

GSN

friends

14.01.012

σου

σύ

pronoun

GS-2

of you

14.01.013

πάντοτε

adverb

always

14.01.014

ζῆν,

ζάω

verb

PAN

to live

14.01.015

ἠλίθιος

adjective

NSM

foolish

14.01.016

εἶ:

εἰμί

verb

PAI.2S

you are

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Translations

If you wish your children, and your wife, and your friends to live for ever, you are stupid;Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)

If you wish your children and your wife and your friends to live forever, you are foolish;Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)

If you would have your children and your wife and your friends to live for ever, you are silly;George Long (1890)

It is silly to want your children and your wife and your friends to live for ever,Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)