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pjalne · #1

What's that shirt mean? I think the first part maybe means Cyprus, but I don't really know Greek.

ziggytrix · #2

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ziggytrix · #3

kopros , hê,

A. excrement, ordure, of men and cattle, Od.9.329, al., Hdt. 3.22, etc.: in pl., Euph.96.4; esp. as used in husbandry, dung, manure, Pl.Prt.334a, Thphr.HP2.7.4.

2. generally, filth, dirt, kulindomenos kata kopron Il.22.414 , 24.640, cf. BGU1116.14 (i B. C.).

II. dunghill, byre, Il.18.575, Od.10.411, Call.Dian.178; kathisai tinas epi koprou Men.544.5 . (In this sense oxyt. kopros acc. to Eust.1165.15.) (Cf. Skt. śákṛt, gen. śaknás 'excrement'.)

ziggytrix · #4

phainô to bring to light, make to appear Entry in LSJ or Middle Liddell or Slater
phainêtai pres subj mid/pass 3rd sg
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Helm · #5

"fanetai" is a mispelling. This means roughly 'Earthhog shows' which would translate better to 'I am a pig' or 'it is plain that I am a pig'. Frank Miller has a very superficial understanding of things he's used extensively in his horrible latter comics, and the mispelling should paint the general picture of such. Although my ancient greek is rusty, so I could be wrong about the mispelling. The syntax also is akward. His battle at thermopylae comic '300' in my opinion could only be descibed as laughably bad, screwed to serve his neurotic political bias, and plus, badly drawn. FM would do us all a favour by going easy on the greek material.

ziggytrix · #6

SHIT HAPPENS!!!

at least, that's what someone with google and no understanding of greek might come up with...

Helm · #7

Happens, and Becomes Apparent are different, but yeah what you say makes sense, given that FM doesn't understand the language much better than the average person with google. BTW Kopros is pig, and Koprana is excrement. Anyway.