Λέσχαι
lounges
Translated by David Whitehead5 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Lounges are what they used to call certain public places in which many people with time to spare would sit. Homer [writes]: "do you not wish to go to a smithy to sleep, or to some lounge?".1 Kleanthes says that the lounges were set aside for Apollo, and that they were similar to saloons. [He] also [says that] Apollo himself is called, by some, Lounge-guardian.
"Lounges" [are] also poems by Herakleides Pontikos, written in either Phalaecic or Sapphic metre.3
"Lounges" [are] also poems by Herakleides Pontikos, written in either Phalaecic or Sapphic metre.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λέσχαι· λέσχας ἔλεγον δημοσίους τινὰς τόπους, ἐν οἷς σχολὴν ἄγοντες ἐκαθέζοντο πολλοί. Ὅμηρος· οὐ θέλεις εὕδειν χαλκήϊον ἐς δόμον ἐλθών, ἠέ που ἐς λέσχην. Κλεάνθης δέ φησιν ἀπονενεμῆσθαι τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τὰς λέσχας, ἐξέδραις δὲ ὁμοίας γίνεσθαι. καὶ αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν Ἀπόλλω παρ' ἐνίοις Λεσχηνόριον ἐπικαλεῖσθαι. Λέσχαι καὶ ποιήματα Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ Ποντικοῦ, μέτρῳ Φαλαικίῳ ἤτοι Σαπφικῷ γραφέντα.
Betacode
*le/sxai: le/sxas e)/legon dhmosi/ous tina\s to/pous, e)n oi(=s sxolh\n a)/gontes e)kaqe/zonto polloi/. *(/omhros: ou) qe/leis eu(/dein xalkh/i+on e)s do/mon e)lqw/n, h)e/ pou e)s le/sxhn. *klea/nqhs de/ fhsin a)ponenemh=sqai tw=| *)apo/llwni ta\s le/sxas, e)ce/drais de\ o(moi/as gi/nesqai. kai\ au)to\n de\ to\n *)apo/llw par' e)ni/ois *lesxhno/rion e)pikalei=sqai. *le/sxai kai\ poih/mata *(hraklei/dou tou= *pontikou=, me/trw| *falaiki/w| h)/toi *sapfikw=| grafe/nta.
Notes (3)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- η463ἩρακλείδηςHerakleides, HeraclidesSon of Heraclides; of Pontus, from Heraclea in Pontus. Grammarian. He attended the school of the famous Didymus in Alexandria. When he heard that Aper, the pupil of Aristarchus, was achieving distinction in Rome, and…
- λ309Λέσχηlounging, lounge; conversation[Meaning] socialising a lot, prattle. In the old days leschai was the name for the seats and places in which men were accustomed to congregate and philosophize. So says, too, Hierocles in [book] 1 of Philosophical…
- λ310Λεσχηνείαgossip[Meaning] insolence. Also [sc. attested is] lesxhnw/ths ["pupil/scholar"], an insolent man.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 19 Apr 2020
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented and modified notes; more keywords — David Whitehead
- added link and keyword; cosmetics; set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead