Διαύλειον προσαυλεῖ τις
someone pipes a pipe-interval
Translated by William Hutton21 Jan 2004Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
This [is a] stage direction. They say that it is called a 'pipe interval' when, after complete silence has fallen, the piper plays offstage. Aristophanes in Frogs [sc. uses the phrase].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Διαύλειον προσαυλεῖ τις· τοῦτο παρεπιγραφή. φασὶ δὲ διαύλειον λέγεσθαι, ὅταν ἡσυχίας πάντων γινομένης, ἔνδον ὁ αὐλητὴς ἄσῃ. Ἀριστοφάνης Βατράχοις.
Betacode
*diau/leion prosaulei= tis: tou=to parepigrafh/. fasi\ de\ diau/leion le/gesqai, o(/tan h(suxi/as pa/ntwn ginome/nhs, e)/ndon o( au)lhth\s a)/sh|. *)aristofa/nhs *batra/xois.