Εὐμολπία πολλάκις τῆς ἡμέρας τρεπόμενος
sweet song -- often during the day turning
Translated by Ryan Stone3 Feb 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
['Fine singing -- often during the day changing';] ['fine singing'] or fine voicing or fine weather.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Εὐμολπία πολλάκις τῆς ἡμέρας τρεπόμενος, ἢ εὐφωνία ἢ εὐημερία.
Betacode
*eu)molpi/a polla/kis th=s h(me/ras trepo/menos, h)\ eu)fwni/a h)\ eu)hmeri/a.
Notes
- The headword phrase has been translated here as the Suda (following Photius, Lexicon epsilon2250) transmits it, but it needs two corrections.
Its origins lie in Hesychius epsilon6994, where eumolpia is glossed with euphonia (as here) and eu(h)ymnia. Later, by the time of the Lexica Segueriana, something longer and more like the Suda's entry has come into being, except that the headword phrase there makes both grammatical and substantive sense (with eumolpia in the dative, and the participle as terpomenos): someone masculine is "often enjoying the day in fine singing". However, in Photius the participle becomes trepomenos and eumolpia an ungrammatical nominative (as here) -- with the two glossing synonymseu)froni/ai andeu)menei/ai (sic).
The headword quotation (if such it is) is unidentifiable.
Note incidentally Pausanias 10.5.6 for the hexameter poem Eumolpia attributed to Musaeus, son of Antiphemus; cf. under mu 1294.