Ἐμμέλεια

emmeleia, harmony

Translated by Catharine Roth22 Feb 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

14 words

A kind of dance.
It is the one of [= used by] the tragedians.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐμμέλεια· εἶδος ὀρχήσεως. ἔστι δὲ ἡ τῶν τραγῳδῶν.

Betacode

*)emme/leia: ei)=dos o)rxh/sews. e)/sti de\ h( tw=n tragw|dw=n.

cf. Pausanias the Atticist and Aelius Dionysius in Eustathius' Commentary on the Iliad 1167.19; also Hesychius, Aristoxenus, Ammonius, and a scholion on Aristophanes, Wasps 1503, where the headword occurs (web address 1). See also epsilon 972 and pi 3159.
LSJ s.v. distinguishes between three senses of this headword, one quite general (harmony, musical or more general) and two kinds of dance: (II) the tragedic kind noted in this entry and (III) the comic 'knuckle-dance' of Wasps. III, however, should not be regarded as objectively different from II but a comic application of it.