Ἄμουσα
unaesthetic [things], unpleasing [things]
Translated by Malcolm Heath22 Jun 1999Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] unpleasant [ones], charmless [ones], boorish [ones].
Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae [writes]: "and besides, it's unaesthetic [amouson] to see a poet who looks like a hairy yokel. Think of the famous Ibycus and Anacreon of Teos", etc.1
Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae [writes]: "and besides, it's unaesthetic [amouson] to see a poet who looks like a hairy yokel. Think of the famous Ibycus and Anacreon of Teos", etc.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἄμουσα· ἀτερπῆ, ἀηδῆ, ἀπαίδευτα. Ἀριστοφάνης ἐν Θεσμοφοριαζούσαις· ἄλλως τ' ἄμουσόν ἐστι ποιητὴν ἰδεῖν ἀγρεῖον ὄντα καὶ δασύν· σκέψαι δ' ὅτι Ἴβυκος ἐκεῖνος κ' Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος. καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς.
Betacode
*)/amousa: a)terph=, a)hdh=, a)pai/deuta. *)aristofa/nhs e)n *qesmoforiazou/sais: a)/llws t' a)/mouso/n e)sti poihth\n i)dei=n a)grei=on o)/nta kai\ dasu/n: ske/yai d' o(/ti *)/ibukos e)kei=nos k' *)anakre/wn o( *th/i+os. kai\ ta\ e(ch=s.
Notes (1)
- The headword adjective, which literally means Muse-less, has the same or similar glossing in other lexica. It is neuter plural, evidently quoted from somewhere (other than the quotation given, where it is neuter singular); extant possibilities are all post-classical.
- 1Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 159-61 (tr. Sommerstein); already, in part, at alpha 350. ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Jun 2015
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- another note; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified headword; augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Malcolm Heath