Ἡγέλοχος
Hegelokhos, Hegelochos, Hegelochus
Translated by David Whitehead18 Jun 2004Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
A tragic actor. "And we can say, like Hegelochos, 'for out of the billows I see again a weasel [galh=n ]'." In reference to those avoiding unpleasantness. For this Hegelochus was acting in Euripides' Orestes1 when he ran out of breath on this line, "for out of the billows I see again a calm [galh/n' ]" (i.e. galh/nhn in the plural2) and was instantly seen to have destroyed the synaloiphe.3 Plato too derides this man for having a displeasing voice.4 [Aristophanes goes on to say] "the Empousa is gone."5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἡγέλοχος· τραγῳδὸς ὑποκριτής. ἔξεστι δ' ὥσπερ Ἡγέλοχος ἡμῖν λέγειν, ἐκ κυμάτων γὰρ αὖθις αὖ γαλῆν ὁρῶ. ἐπὶ τῶν διαφυγόντων τὰ λυπηρά. ὁ γὰρ Ἡγέλοχος οὗτος καὶ ἐν τῷ Ὀρέστῃ τοῦ Εὐριπίδου προστάντος αὐτῷ τοῦ πνεύματος ἐν τῷδε τῷ στίχῳ, ἐκ κυμάτων γὰρ αὖθις αὖ γαλήν' ὁρῶ [γαλήνην γὰρ τὸ πλῆρες], αἰφνιδίως ὀφθῆναι συνελόντα τὴν συναλοιφήν. τοῦτον δὲ καὶ ὡς ἀτερπῆ τὴν φωνὴν Πλάτων σκώπτει. ἥμπουσα φρούδη.
Betacode
*(hge/loxos: tragw|do\s u(pokrith/s. e)/cesti d' w(/sper *(hge/loxos h(mi=n le/gein, e)k kuma/twn ga\r au)=qis au)= galh=n o(rw=. e)pi\ tw=n diafugo/ntwn ta\ luphra/. o( ga\r *(hge/loxos ou(=tos kai\ e)n tw=| *)ore/sth| tou= *eu)ripi/dou prosta/ntos au)tw=| tou= pneu/matos e)n tw=|de tw=| sti/xw|, e)k kuma/twn ga\r au)=qis au)= galh/n' o(rw= [galh/nhn ga\r to\ plh=res], ai)fnidi/ws o)fqh=nai sunelo/nta th\n sunaloifh/n. tou=ton de\ kai\ w(s a)terph= th\n fwnh\n *pla/twn skw/ptei. h(/mpousa frou/dh.
Notes (5)
- Aristophanes, Frogs 303-305 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there.
- 1Three years earlier. ↩
- 2Actually
galhno/s in the neuter plural, at Euripides, Orestes 279 (web address 2). See LSJ s.v. ↩ - 3See generally sigma 1434. ↩
- 4Plato Comicus fr. 215 Kock, now 235 K.-A. ↩
- 5cf. generally epsilon 1049. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history7 revisions · last 1 Jan 2015
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked links — Catharine Roth
- added links — Catharine Roth
- another headword; another note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- augmented note, added keyword — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead