Διάλεξις
speech, conversation, discourse
Translated by Marcelo Boeri25 Jun 2003Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "they provide us with speech". That is, with experience of speeches. And intelligence, that is to show what has been thought. Speech differs from dialect, because dialect1 is a character of the voice indicating nationality, whereas speech [is] a deviation of a usual voice toward what is more venerable and rustic.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Διάλεξις· Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· διάλεξιν ἡμῖν παρέχουσι. τουτέστι λόγων ἐμπειρίαν. καὶ νοῦν, τουτέστι τὰ νοηθέντα φράζειν. διαφέρει δὲ διάλεξις διαλέκτου, ὅτι διάλεκτος μέν ἐστι φωνῆς χαρακτὴρ ἐθνικός, διάλεξις δὲ τῆς συνήθους φωνῆς ἐκτροπὴ ἐπὶ τὸ σεμνότερον καὶ ἀγροικότερον.