Μονῳδεῖν ἐκ Μηδείας
to sing a monody from a Medea
Translated by David Whitehead5 Aug 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
["[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 finding [any] he would be indignant; inasmuch as cooks boil eels with beets.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μονῳδεῖν ἐκ Μηδείας· ὀλόμαν, ὀλόμαν, ἀποχειρωθεὶς τὰς ἐν τεύτλοισι λοχευομένας. περὶ Μελανθίου λέγει τοῦ ὀψοφάγου, ὅτι ἀφικόμενος ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ ὀψωνῆσαι ἐγχέλεις καὶ μὴ εὑρὼν σχετλιάσοι· παρόσον οἱ μάγειροι μετὰ τεύτλων ἕψουσι τὰς ἐγχέλεις.
Betacode
*monw|dei=n e)k *mhdei/as: o)lo/man, o)lo/man, a)poxeirwqei\s ta\s e)n teu/tloisi loxeuome/nas. peri\ *melanqi/ou le/gei tou= o)yofa/gou, o(/ti a)fiko/menos e)n th=| a)gora=| o)ywnh=sai e)gxe/leis kai\ mh\ eu(rw\n sxetlia/soi: paro/son oi( ma/geiroi meta\ teu/tlwn e(/yousi ta\s e)gxe/leis.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Peace 1012-1014 (web address 1), with scholion. (The noun implicit in the passage is eels.) For Melanthios, tragedian as well as gourmet, cf. mu 457. For other Medea-tragedies cf. under (e.g.) delta 1142, epsilon 3694, mu 673, sigma 1178.
See also, on monodies, mu 1242, mu 1244.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- μ1242Μονῳδεῖνto sing a monody[Meaning] to lament; for in tragedy virtually all the odes [sc. sung] from a skene are laments. Aristophanes [writes]: "then I nursed it up with monodies, mixing [in] Kiphesophon". This Kiphesophon was a slave working…
- 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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