Ἀγρεία ἀοιδή
rustic song
Translated by Anne Mahoney28 Aug 1998Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
The rural [kind].1
"He stretched the hide down a rustic plane tree." In the Epigrams.2
Also [sc. attested is]a)grei=os , [meaning] the yokel, the ignoramus.3
Or someone from the country.
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "you are rustic and clumsy."4
The rustic and possessor of a large beard.5
And elsewhere: "it's particularly vulgar to see a poet who is rustic and hairy."6
"He stretched the hide down a rustic plane tree." In the Epigrams.2
Also [sc. attested is]
Or someone from the country.
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "you are rustic and clumsy."4
The rustic and possessor of a large beard.5
And elsewhere: "it's particularly vulgar to see a poet who is rustic and hairy."6
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀγρεία ἀοιδή· ἡ ἀγροικική. τὸ σκύτος ἀγρείης τ' εἴνε κατὰ πλατάνου. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι. καὶ Ἀγρεῖος, ὁ ἄγροικος, ὁ ἀμαθής. ἢ ὁ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀγροῦ. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· ἀγρεῖος εἶ καὶ σκαιός. ὁ ἄγροικος καὶ μέγαν πώγωνα ἔχων. καὶ αὖθις· ἄλλως τ' ἄμουσόν ἐστι ποιητὴν ἰδεῖν ἀγρεῖον ὄντα καὶ δασύν.
Betacode
*)agrei/a a)oidh/: h( a)groikikh/. to\ sku/tos a)grei/hs t' ei)/ne kata\ plata/nou. e)n *)epigra/mmasi. kai\ *)agrei=os, o( a)/groikos, o( a)maqh/s. h)\ o( a)po\ tou= a)grou=. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: a)grei=os ei)= kai\ skaio/s. o( a)/groikos kai\ me/gan pw/gwna e)/xwn. kai\ au)=qis: a)/llws t' a)/mouso/n e)sti poihth\n i)dei=n a)grei=on o)/nta kai\ dasu/n.
Notes (5)
- [1] The headword phrase is presumably quoted from somewhere.↩
- 2Greek Anthology 6.35.2 (Leonidas of Tarentum), a rustic dedication to Pan; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (122) and vol. II (356-357); cf. further extracts from this epigram at alpha 325, alphaiota 210, gamma 73, lambda 189, rho 72, and tau 264. The plane tree of the epigram,
pla/tanos , is almost certainly the Old World or Asiatic Plane, Platanus orientalis, whose range extends from Asia into Greece and the eastern Mediterranean; cf. Raven (24, 70). ↩- 3From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 655, about to be quoted. ↩
- 4Aristophanes, Clouds 655. ↩
- 5From the scholia to Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 160, about to be quoted. ↩
- 6Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 159-160 (copied here from alpha 1633).
- 2Greek Anthology 6.35.2 (Leonidas of Tarentum), a rustic dedication to Pan; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (122) and vol. II (356-357); cf. further extracts from this epigram at alpha 325, alphaiota 210, gamma 73, lambda 189, rho 72, and tau 264. The plane tree of the epigram,
References
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
J.E. Raven, Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece, (Oxford 2000)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
J.E. Raven, Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece, (Oxford 2000)
Linked from3 entries
- α325Ἀγωαῖοςfor leadingIn the Epigrams: "and a dog-leash for leading".
- α1633Ἄμουσαunaesthetic [things], unpleasing [things][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…
- αι210Αἱμωπούςbloody[Meaning ones] delighting in blood. "[The staff] which formerly drove off the bloody wolves."
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Revision history8 revisions · last 15 Nov 2018
- better wording n.2 — Ronald Allen
- tweaked translation, expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword — Ronald Allen
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- modified translation; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Anne Mahoney