Ἀρχαῖος
simple
Translated by Jennifer Benedict · 17 Aug 2001 · Vetting: high · 6 revisions
Translation
Meaning naive.1 Plato [sc. uses the word in this sense].2 Or [talking?] nonsense.
But [the related adverb]a)rxai/ws [means] carelessly, unobservantly; or even foolishly, naively. "[They] humming tunes simple-honeyed-Sidon-Phrynichus-lovely."3
But [the related adverb]
Greek original
Ἀρχαῖος· ἀντὶ τοῦ εὐήθης. Πλάτων. ἢ λῆρος. Ἀρχαίως δὲ ἀπραγμόνως, ἀπαρατηρήτως· ἢ καὶ ἠλιθίως, εὐήθως. μινυρίζοντες μέλη ἀρχαιομελισιδωνοφρυνιχήρατα.
Betacode
*)arxai=os: a)nti\ tou= eu)h/qhs. *pla/twn. h)\ lh=ros. *)arxai/ws de\ a)pragmo/nws, a)parathrh/tws: h)\ kai\ h)liqi/ws, eu)h/qws. minuri/zontes me/lh a)rxaiomelisidwnofrunixh/rata.
Notes (2)
- [1] cf. alpha 4072 (end), pi 54.↩
- 2cf. the scholia to Plato, Hippias Minor 371D, where it occurs. ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Wasps 219-220 (web address 1 below); again at mu 1103. The final, outlandish word is "an appreciative comic adjective invented for the occasion" (MacDowell ad loc.). One of the best-known plays by the C6/5 tragedian Phrynichus was his Phoenician Women; though staged in the 470s BCE, it still evidently struck a chord half a century later.
References
Aristophanes, Wasps, edited with introduction and commentary by Douglas M. MacDowell (Oxford 1971)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from (1)
Neighbours in Adler order
Revisions (6)
- Catharine Rothtweaked link
- David Whiteheadanother x-ref
- David Whiteheadmore keywords; betacode and other cosmetics
- David Whiteheadaugmented notes and keywords; cosmetics
- Jennifer Benedicttranslated