Κωδωνοφορεῖται
[everything] is bell-carried
Translated by David Whitehead19 Nov 2006Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Meaning the guard-duty of the sentries is examined.1
'Bell' is also the name for the broad part of a trumpet. Sophocles [writes]: "of a bronze-mouthed bell". There are many kind of trumpet: Libyan, Egyptian, Etruscan. Archondas, when an ally of the Herakleidai, was the first to introduce the Etruscan trumpet to the Greeks. That is why [Sophocles] says "Etruscan".2
'Bell' is also the name for the broad part of a trumpet. Sophocles [writes]: "of a bronze-mouthed bell". There are many kind of trumpet: Libyan, Egyptian, Etruscan. Archondas, when an ally of the Herakleidai, was the first to introduce the Etruscan trumpet to the Greeks. That is why [Sophocles] says "Etruscan".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κωδωνοφορεῖται· ἀντὶ τοῦ δοκιμάζεται ἡ τῶν φυλάκων φρουρά. Κώδων καλεῖται καὶ τὸ πλατὺ τῆς σάλπιγγος. Σοφοκλῆς· χαλκοστόμου κώδωνος. πολλὰ δέ εἰσιν εἴδη σαλπίγγων· Λιβυστικαί, Αἰγύπτιαι, Τυρσηνικαί. πρῶτος Ἀρχώνδας συμμαχῶν τοῖς Ἡρακλείδαις ἤγαγεν εἰς Ἕλληνας τὴν Τυρρηνικὴν σάλπιγγα. διὰ τοῦτο φησὶ Τυρρηνικῆς.
Betacode
*kwdwnoforei=tai: a)nti\ tou= dokima/zetai h( tw=n fula/kwn froura/. *kw/dwn kalei=tai kai\ to\ platu\ th=s sa/lpiggos. *sofoklh=s: xalkosto/mou kw/dwnos. polla\ de/ ei)sin ei)/dh salpi/ggwn: *libustikai/, *ai)gu/ptiai, *turshnikai/. prw=tos *)arxw/ndas summaxw=n toi=s *(hraklei/dais h)/gagen ei)s *(/ellhnas th\n *turrhnikh\n sa/lpigga. dia\ tou=to fhsi\ *turrhnikh=s.
Notes (2)
- 1Aristophanes, Birds 1160, with scholion. Cf. kappa 2221. ↩
- 2Sophocles, Ajax 17 (
xalkosto/mou kw/dwnos w(s *Turshnikh=s ), with scholia; cf. epsilon 3793. Archondas is otherwise attested only in another scholion (to Euripides, Phoenician Women 1377). On trumpets cf. sigma 66, sigma 67, sigma 68. ↩
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- cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
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- more x-refs — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead