How do you translate a question that has two interogatives following each other.
τίς πόθεν εἶ σύ;
Does this mean, who are you and where are you from, or is it just, where are you from?
double interogative
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Re: double interogative
It means "Who are you and where are you from?"Bert wrote: τίς πόθεν εἶ σύ;
Does this mean, who are you and where are you from, or is it just, where are you from?
See Odyssey, I, 170 :
τίς πόθεν εἰς ἀνδρῶν, πόθι τοι πόλις ἠδὲ τοκῆες; (εἰς = εἶ ) "Who art thou, and what thy people ? Who thy parents, where thy home?" (as translated by G.P. Goold in his translation of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, 5, where the line is quoted)
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