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You have been commissioned to write a new translation of the Odyssey.

How would you translate "πολύτροπος"?
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Google translator says it means "multimode" so that's what I would go with.
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many-minded. Fits Odysseus's cunning the best
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Polutropos
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I would translate it as: much given to a taste for gay rape orgies.

But I'm a firm believer in interpolating figurative improvements in the original.
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>>7632040
Something like "many ways".
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hydradicked
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>>7632080
Pleb...ύ is i not u. Poh-LEE-tropos. Remember to roll that r. ;^)
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>>7632096
thank you. I will remember that
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>>7632096
who is she
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ωηατ'ς θε kοντεχτ?
Tufts has an entry.
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>>7632040
Worldly

Also,>>7632409
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>>7632096
WTF are you talking about mang, ύ is pronounced 'u' in Ancient Greek. Yes the phonym is /y/, but you say that like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_front_rounded_vowel
You can thank my belgian ancient languages education.
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>>7633085
yeah, this, if I'd have to say without context.
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Avenger
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THIS SUMMER...
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>>7633454
IN A WORLD WHERE CORN IS NO MERE MAIZE
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"Pi oh half life you tea po pi oh sea"
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"me ma mo"
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>>7632096
>>7633423
>arguing about pronounciation of a dead language.
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>>7632040
[Dude who's] been around the block
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>>7633713
A bit crass, no?
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>>7632040

>translation
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>>7632040
"Big kid on campus"
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>>7632040

"hes a big guy"
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>>7633713
Fagles?
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>>7632040
TTOAUTPOTTOS
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>>7633746
For Odysseus
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>>7632096
Deliver the sauce
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>>7633880
Ancient Greek
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>>7632040

"toyutpottoc"

QED
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>>7633880
>fapping to cartoons.
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>>7632040
Like russian: "пoлитpoпoc"-thermodynamic process.
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>>7632040
πολύτροπος = πολύ + τροπή
πολύ =many, much etc
τροπή = something is happening

one that dose things in many ways
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chicken lover
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