Μέλεος
idle, miserable
Translated by Nick Nicholas10 May 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μέλεος· μάταιος, ἄθλιος, ταλαίπωρος, δυστυχής. ὁ μὲν ποιητὴς ἐπὶ τοῦ ματαίου ἐκδέχεται τὸ μέλεος, οἱ δὲ τραγικοὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ οἰκτροῦ.
Betacode
*me/leos: ma/taios, a)/qlios, talai/pwros, dustuxh/s. o( me\n poihth\s e)pi\ tou= matai/ou e)kde/xetai to\ me/leos, oi( de\ tragikoi\ e)pi\ tou= oi)ktrou=.
Notes (2)
- 1Likewise in the Synagoge, Photius mu230 Theodoridis, and the Lexica Segueriana. "Vain" is already the gloss in Homer, Iliad 23.795, Hesychius mu678, and Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. ↩
- 2i.e. Homer ("the Poet") uses the word to mean "idle" (LSJ s.v.
me/leos I), e.g. at Iliad 16.336 (see the scholia there), while the post-Homeric sense is "miserable" (LSJ s.v. II), as shown in the tragedians, e.g. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 779. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 26 Dec 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas