A question concerning, "Ti de tis; ti d' ou tis; skias onar anthropos."
I've seen a translation, "What is a man? What is not a man? Man is a shadow in a dream."
What's the meaning, function, etc. of "de"?
Thanks,
Eric
Pindar's anthropos
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Pindar is one of the most difficult Greek poets and the Greek particles are notoriously difficult to find exact English equivalents for their various nuances of meaning .I would suggest you could translate it as 'then' or 'in fact'. L&S give a whole range of descriptive uses of this particle . The closest perhaps being a " conjunction ...in enumerations or transitions .. used with repetition of a word in different relations and in rhetorical outbursts or climax" .also "To resume or begin an account i.e. 'well then '.