Μονῳδεῖν
to sing a monody
Translated by David Whitehead5 Aug 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to lament; for in tragedy virtually all the odes [sc. sung] from a skene are laments.1
Aristophanes [writes]: "then I nursed it up with monodies, mixing [in] Kiphesophon". This Kiphesophon was a slave working with him [sc. Euripides] particularly on his songs. He used to be a butt of comedy for being intimate with [Euripides'] wife. 2
Aristophanes [writes]: "then I nursed it up with monodies, mixing [in] Kiphesophon". This Kiphesophon was a slave working with him [sc. Euripides] particularly on his songs. He used to be a butt of comedy for being intimate with [Euripides'] wife. 2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μονῳδεῖν· τὸ θρηνεῖν· ἐπιεικῶς γὰρ πᾶσαι αἱ ἀπὸ σκηνῆς ᾠδαὶ ἐν τῇ τραγῳδίᾳ θρῆνοί εἰσιν. Ἀριστοφάνης· εἶτ' ἀνέτρεφον μονῳδίαις Κιφησοφῶντα μιγνύς. οὗτος ὁ Κιφησοφῶν δοῦλος ἦν συμπονῶν αὐτῷ μάλιστα τὰ μέλη. ἐκωμῴδει συνεῖναι τῇ γυναικί.
Betacode
*monw|dei=n: to\ qrhnei=n: e)pieikw=s ga\r pa=sai ai( a)po\ skhnh=s w)|dai\ e)n th=| tragw|di/a| qrh=noi/ ei)sin. *)aristofa/nhs: ei)=t' a)ne/trefon monw|di/ais *kifhsofw=nta mignu/s. ou(=tos o( *kifhsofw=n dou=los h)=n sumponw=n au)tw=| ma/lista ta\ me/lh. e)kwmw/|dei sunei=nai th=| gunaiki/.
Notes (2)
- See also mu 1243, mu 1244.
- 1Same material in Photius (mu527 Theodoridis) and other lexica. ↩
- 2Euripides in Aristophanes, Frogs 944 (web address 1), with scholion. Dover ad loc. is suitably sceptical about Kephisophon (sic: for the name-garbling see already under kappa 1691), whose "biography" is entirely generated from misunderstandings of this and other Aristophanic passages. ↩
References
K.J. Dover (ed.), Aristophanes: Frogs (Oxford: OUP 1993)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- κ1691ΚιφησοφῶνKiphesophon, KephisophonThis man was a slave.
- μ1243Μονῳδεῖν ἐκ Μηδείαςto sing a monody from a Medea["[Then] to sing a monody from a Medea,] 'I am undone, I am undone, deprived of the ones embedded in beets'." He is speaking about the gourmet Melanthios, because arriving in the market to buy eels as a delicacy and not…
- μ1244Μονῳδίαmonody[Meaning] a song [sc. sung] from a skene in plays. And [the verb] 'to sing a monody' [means] to lament. The term 'monody' is used when a single person utters the song and not the chorus as a whole. A 'monody' is a song…
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