Κορυβαντιᾷ
celebrates the Korybant rites, is in a frenzy
Translated by Nick Nicholas3 Feb 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] is mad, or dances, or is possessed.1
Also [sc. attested is]sugkorubantia/santes ["they having celebrated the Korybant rites together"], [meaning] they having gone mad together. "The army, all of them frenzied and shouting war cries and banging their weapons, jumped into the river."2
Also [sc. attested is]korubantiw=n ["celebrating the Korybant rites"], [meaning] [someone] being in ecstasy, being mad.3
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Greek original · Adler’s text
Κορυβαντιᾷ· μαίνεται, ἢ ὀρχεῖται, ἢ δαιμονᾷ. καὶ Συγκορυβαντιάσαντες, συμμανέντες. ὁ δὲ στρατὸς συγκορυβαντιάσαντες καὶ ἐπαλαλάξαντες ἅπαντες καὶ τοῖς ὅπλοις ἐπιδουπήσαντες ἐσήλαντο ἐς τὸν ποταμόν. καὶ Κορυβαντιῶν, ἐνθουσιῶν, μαινόμενος.
Betacode
*korubantia=|: mai/netai, h)\ o)rxei=tai, h)\ daimona=|. kai\ *sugkorubantia/santes, summane/ntes. o( de\ strato\s sugkorubantia/santes kai\ e)palala/cantes a(/pantes kai\ toi=s o(/plois e)pidouph/santes e)sh/lanto e)s to\n potamo/n. kai\ *korubantiw=n, e)nqousiw=n, maino/menos.
Notes (3)
- On the Korybantes see already kappa 2114, kappa 2115. The Phrygian ecstatic dances were used to refer to frenzy in general.
- 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa985 Theodoridis. The headword must be quoted from somewhere. Extant possibilities include: Philo Judaeus, On Dreams 2.1; Themistius,
*basanisth\s h)\ filo/sofos 253a; Libanius, Letters 299.2; Palladius, Dialogue on the Life of Chrysostom p. 138 Coleman-Norton. ↩ - 2Quotation unidentifiable. (This verb, first in Plato, also occurs in sigma 1297.) ↩
- 3Masculine nominative singular of this present participle; cf. the plural forms
korubantiw=ntes in Plato, Crito 54D, Ion 533E, 536C, andkorubantiw/ntwn in Symposium 215E. ↩
Linked from4 entries
- κ2114ΚορύβαντεςKorybantsSome take it that the Kouretes and the Korybantes are the same. They were Zeus' nurses and guards. Some say they [were] ten, others nine. They were the children of Rhea. And a Korybant [was] the same as the Kouretes,…
- κ2115ΚορυβαντείωνKorybanteian, Corybantean[Meaning] maddened, divinely-inspiring. In the Epigrams: "and bronze cries of Corybantean drums."
- κ2743ΚύρβαςKurbas, Kyrbas[genitive] *ku/rbantos: an ethnikon.
- κ2745Κύρβειςkyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tabletsThose containing [sc. lists of] the festivals of the gods; being a sort of secret sources, in which the matters of the gods were to be hidden away. Asclepiades [says] that [the term comes] from Kurbes, who 'defined the…
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Revision history4 revisions · last 5 Jan 2020
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- expanded n.1; tweaking — David Whitehead
- another x-ref; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas