Κελαινοφαής
black-coloured
Translated by Robert Dyer10 Mar 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Meaning black. Aristophanes in Frogs [writes]: "o black-coloured darkness of night".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κελαινοφαής· ἀντὶ τοῦ μέλαινα. Ἀριστοφάνης Βατράχοις· ὦ νυκτὸς κελαινοφαὴς ὄρφνη.
Betacode
*kelainofah/s: a)nti\ tou= me/laina. *)aristofa/nhs *batra/xois: w)= nukto\s kelainofah\s o)/rfnh.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Frogs 1331 (web address 1), with scholia.
Aristophanes is here parodying the monodies of Euripides, in the mouth of his character Aeschylus. First he mocks the blatant redundancy of the words; secondly he uses a characteristic of Euripides, adding the suffix-fa/hs to adjectives of colour without adding to the meaning (see Dover ad loc., citing D. Hense in Philologus 60, 1901, 389). See Dover’s analysis (p. 358ff.) of the whole monody.
See also omicron 663.
References
Aristophanes, Frogs, ed. K.J. Dover (Oxford, 1993)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 27 Jul 2019
- modified link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Robert Dyer