On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> Wooble wrote:
>
>> I submit the following Fragment:
>> {{
>> οἵ πίθηκοι ἀλλο-πρόσαλλοι ἔστοι
>> }}
>
> For the curious, Google Translate interprets this as Greek
> for "Monkeys are another; prosalloi estoi".I get "other apes-prosalloi estoi" from Translate; of course, it only knows modern Greek and this isn't. ἀλλο-πρόσαλλοι means something like "ones who lean one way and then the other"; ἔστοι is just a plural form of "to be". It got the monkeys correct.
