Do I know anyone who knows Greek?
Apr. 26th, 2005 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvarI want to make T-shirts with this quote from Aristophanes' "Plutus", and I want to make sure the design is accurate:
(Our vendor just introduced a fancy new product called "Corinthian" for high-end customers, but they haven't implemented many of the requests that their dedicated but poorer customers have been asking for. So if you know Greek, you'll know why this is so funny.)
The English translation is something like "And what about those Corinthian whores? They won't give a poor man the time of day, but if he's rich, they'll bend over in an instant!"
καὶ τάς γ' ἑταίρας φασὶ τὰς Κορινθίας,
ὅταν μὲν αὐτάς τις πένης πειρω̂ν τύχῃ,
οὐδὲ προσέχειν τὸν νου̂ν, ἐὰν δὲ πλούσιος,
τὸν πρωκτὸν αὐτὰς εὐθὺς ὡς του̂τον τρέπειν.
(Our vendor just introduced a fancy new product called "Corinthian" for high-end customers, but they haven't implemented many of the requests that their dedicated but poorer customers have been asking for. So if you know Greek, you'll know why this is so funny.)
The English translation is something like "And what about those Corinthian whores? They won't give a poor man the time of day, but if he's rich, they'll bend over in an instant!"
