Μολπή

chant

Translated by Ioannis Doukas31 Dec 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 32 words
[Meaning an] ode.
But in Homer [it means] a game.1 "With song and dance; for these [are] the ornaments of a banquet".2
And elsewhere: "he did not desist from the honey-sweet chant".3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μολπή· ᾠδή. παρὰ Ὁμήρῳ δὲ τὸ παίγνιον. μολπῇ τ' ὀρχηθμῷ τε· τὰ γάρ τ' ἀναθήματα δαιτός. καὶ αὖθις· μολπῆς δ' οὐ λῆγε μελιτερπέος.

Betacode
*molph/: w)|dh/. para\ *(omh/rw| de\ to\ pai/gnion. molph=| t' o)rxhqmw=| te: ta\ ga/r t' a)naqh/mata daito/s. kai\ au)=qis: molph=s d' ou) lh=ge meliterpe/os.

Notes (3)

  1. cf. mu 541.
  2. 1Homer, Odyssey 6.101 (web address 1); cf. Iliad 13.637 and 18.606 (web addresses 2 and 3) for the original meaning. ↩
  3. 2Slightly altered version of Homer, Odyssey 1.152 (web address 4). ↩
  4. 3Greek Anthology 7.25.9 (attributed to Simonides), on Anakreon (cf. alpha 1916); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 181) and (vol. II, 519). Gow and Page note (ibid.) that meliterpe/os (honey-sweet) is not attested elsewhere. ↩

References


A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)

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Revision history4 revisions · last 18 Jun 2021
  1. expanded n.3, added bibliography — Ronald Allen
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. x-ref; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — Ioannis Doukas

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