double interogative

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Bert
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double interogative

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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?

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Re: double interogative

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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?
It means "Who are you and 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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