Λόγια
sayings
Translated by Catharine Roth31 Dec 2001Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] things which (a) god says in prose; but chresmoi ["oracles"] [are] those which are spoken in verse, the speakers being inspired by (a) god.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λόγια· τὰ παρὰ θεοῦ λεγόμενα καταλογάδην· χρησμοὶ δὲ οἵτινες ἐμμέτρως λέγονται, θεοφορουμένων τῶν λεγόντων.
Betacode
*lo/gia: ta\ para\ qeou= lego/mena kataloga/dhn: xrhsmoi\ de\ oi(/tines e)mme/trws le/gontai, qeoforoume/nwn tw=n lego/ntwn.
Notes
- From the scholia to Thucydides 2.8.2: "many logia were in circulation, and many were the chants of the chresmologoi". But the distinction drawn here does not always hold good (see LSJ s.v. [web address 1], and Gomme ad loc.), and the one Thucydides is making in this passage is different: between ordinary gossip and the more formal pronouncements of the oracle-mongers.
References
A.W. Gomme, A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, ii (Oxford 1956)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 12 Jun 2020
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented note; added keyword — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth