A message from Nike, the sportsman's Muse

[auctor]

Here's a couple of lines of iambic trimeter that should be topical in a few weeks time.
[face=SPIonic]
O)lumpiaze h(suxwj touj gnwrimouj
a)spazomai kai diaferoite sun qew|
[/face]

There must be room for improvement!

Paul McK

[Emma_85]

Lol, if there are any Olympic games to go to... the Greeks aren't doing to well with the building scedule .
I can't think of anything to improve right now...

[auctor]

So there's the next challenge then!
A distich from the Muse assuring us that all is in hand and her construction team are up to it

Happy versifying,
Paul McK

[Emma_85]

Not iambic trimeter though:

[face=spionic]panta estin kosmioj [/face]
[face=spionic]kai ou(/twj mh a)lge.[/face]

[chad]

Hi, here's my lines on the topic: asking athena not to listen to the slander about her people and the Olympic stadium they're making (slowly). The lines are in aeolic (except for a few words where i couldn't find an aeolic word), in Sappho's famous metre. I'll do them in spionic and betacode, since i still don't have spionic back

[face=SPIonic]w} 'Aqana&a", filo/tata& s' a!mmin,
li/ssomai/ se, mh/ s' a!i+e yo/goio,
a!ll' 'Olu/mpion dro/mon eu} a!erre
Kekropi/aj te.[/face]

w)= 'Aqana/a+, filo/tata/ s' a)/mmin,
li/ssomai/ se, mh/ s' a)/i+e yo/goio,
a)/ll' 'Olu/mpion dro/mon eu)= a)/erre
Kekropi/aj te.

Oh Athena, most dear to us,
I beg you, do not listen to the slander,
But rather exalt the Olympian stadium
and the people of Athens.

the metre goes (dash = long, full stop = short, x = can be either)

- . - x - . . - . - x
- . - x - . . - . - x
- . - x - . . - . - x
- . . - x

and the last "line" runs on in the same breath from the 3rd line... i think i've read that...

[mingshey]

Here's a couple of lines of iambic trimeter that should be topical in a few weeks time.
[face=SPIonic]
O)lumpi/aze h(su/xwj tou=j gnwri/mouj
a)spa/zomai kai\ diafe/roite su\n qew=|
[/face]

There must be room for improvement!

Paul McK

I'm slower in learning Greek than Greeks are in their building job. I'll just try to translate it:

We quietly welcome friends(those familiar) to Olympus
and may you carry over with the Gods.


I thought [face=SPIonic]diafe/roite[/face] was in 2nd. pl. opt. ind. but couldn't find it in the Perseus morphology tool.

[auctor]

[face=SPIonic]
O)lumpi/aze h(su/xwj tou=j gnwri/mouj
a)spa/zomai kai\ diafe/roite su\n qew=|
[/face]

We quietly welcome friends(those familiar) to Olympus
and may you carry over with the Gods.

The sentiment is just about right, Mingshey, but I think you've got too many people involved. There is only one person doing the welcoming and only one god doing the accompanying
The last verb (it is 2nd pl. pres. opt.) also has a sense of 'to excel' so...

I gladly welcome the well-known people to Olympia
Also, may you [all] excel in the presence of [your] god

... or words to that effect.

Paul McK

[mingshey]

Yeah.. I've been too careless about the number.