Ληκυθιστής

hollow-voiced declaimer

Translated by Catharine Roth3 Apr 2009Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 42 words

[Meaning] a man with a small voice. Thus Sophocles [uses the word].¹
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] lhkuqismo/s ["hollow speaking"].²
"To publish with well-twisted and modulated [speech] the hollow declamation of shameful and laughable songs."³ That is, the excellent voice.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ληκυθιστής· ὁ μικρόφωνος. οὕτως Σοφοκλῆς. καὶ Ληκυθισμός. περιενεγκεῖν εὐστρόφως καὶ κεκλασμένως τὸν ληκυθισμὸν τῶν αἰσχρῶν καὶ γελοίων ᾀσμάτων. τουτέστι τὴν εὐφωνίαν.

Betacode

*lhkuqisth/s: o( mikro/fwnos. ou(/tws *sofoklh=s. kai\ *lhkuqismo/s. perienegkei=n eu)stro/fws kai\ keklasme/nws to\n lhkuqismo\n tw=n ai)sxrw=n kai\ geloi/wn a)|sma/twn. toute/sti th\n eu)fwni/an.

Notes (3)

1Sophocles fr. 1063 (contextless). Also in Photius lambda257 Theodoridis (and similarly in Hesychius lambda856); and cf. lambda 440. ↩
2Very rare: other than in the quotation which follows here, attested only in Plutarch, Moralia [That it is not possible to live pleasantly according to Epicurus] 1086E; accusative plural. ↩
3Quotation unidentifiable. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 15 May 2020

15 May 2020cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
18 Apr 2013coding — Catharine Roth
18 Apr 2013Revised — David Whitehead
5 Apr 2009another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
3 Apr 2009Translated — Catharine Roth

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Greek original · Adler’s text

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