Κύκλια
rounds
Translated by Ioannis Doukas25 Jun 2007Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
Those [songs] which had the same subject, these they used to call 'rounds'. Aristophanes [writes]: "rounds many and fine".1 That is songs, hymns, paeans,2 prosodia,3 parthenia.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κύκλια· τὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ὑπόθεσιν ἔχοντα, ταῦτα κύκλια ἔλεγον. Ἀριστοφάνης· κύκλιά τε πολλὰ καὶ καλά. τουτέστι μέλη, ὕμνους, παιᾶνας, προσῴδια, παρθένια.
Betacode
*ku/klia: ta\ th\n au)th\n u(po/qesin e)/xonta, tau=ta ku/klia e)/legon. *)aristofa/nhs: ku/klia/ te polla\ kai\ kala/. toute/sti me/lh, u(/mnous, paia=nas, prosw/|dia, parqe/nia.
Notes (4)
- 1Neuter accusative plural from Aristophanes, Birds 918 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; also quoted in pi 661. Compare kappa 2646, kappa 2647; also delta 1030 and Etymologicum Magnum s.v.
diqu/rambos . ↩ - 2pi 836, pi 837, pi 838. ↩
- 3pi 2772. ↩
- 4pi 661. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history2 revisions · last 20 Mar 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas