Μουσόμαντις
of prophetic voice
Translated by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝19 Jun 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] boastful. For the seers and the poets [are] such as this. As Aeschylus [writes] in the [verse] from Edonians: "who ever will be the speechless man of prophetic voice, Abrateus?"
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μουσόμαντις· κομπώδης. τοιοῦτοι γὰρ οἱ μάντεις καὶ οἱ ποιηταί· παρὰ τὸ ἐξ Ἠδωνῶν Αἰσχύλος· τίς ποτ' ἔσται ὁ μουσόμαντις ἄλαλος, Ἀβρατεύς.
Betacode
*mouso/mantis: kompw/dhs. toiou=toi ga\r oi( ma/nteis kai\ oi( poihtai/: para\ to\ e)c *)hdwnw=n *ai)sxu/los: ti/s pot' e)/stai o( mouso/mantis a)/lalos, *)abrateu/s.
Notes
- cf. scholion on Aristophanes, Birds 276, where the headword occurs.
Aeschylus = a garbled verion of his fr.60. (See Dunbar 232-3.)
References
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
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Revision history3 revisions · last 27 May 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes — David Whitehead
- modified translation, added note and keywords — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝