Μέλητος
Meletos, Meletus
Translated by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝3 Nov 2002Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
A frigid poet of tragedy. And Aristophanes [says]: "[of] drinking-songs of Meletos and of his Carian pipe-pieces." This man is he who indicted Socrates. He is satirized in comedy for being frigid in his poetry and for being wicked in his way of life. His Carian pipe-pieces and melodies were fit for a dirge.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μέλητος· τραγῳδίας ποιητὴς ὑπόψυχρος. καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης· σκολιὰ Μελήτου, Καρικῶν αὐλημάτων. οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Σωκράτην γραψάμενος. κωμῳδεῖται δὲ ὡς ψυχρὸς ἐν τῇ ποιήσει καὶ ὡς πονηρὸς τὸν τρόπον. τὰ δὲ Καρικὰ αὐλήματα καὶ μέλη θρηνώδη ἦσαν.
Betacode
*me/lhtos: tragw|di/as poihth\s u(po/yuxros. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: skolia\ *melh/tou, *karikw=n au)lhma/twn. ou(=to/s e)stin o( *swkra/thn graya/menos. kwmw|dei=tai de\ w(s yuxro\s e)n th=| poih/sei kai\ w(s ponhro\s to\n tro/pon. ta\ de\ *karika\ au)lh/mata kai\ me/lh qrhnw/dh h)=san.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Frogs 1302 (here slightly misquoted, see web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; again at sigma 642. See generally OCD4 Meletus(1).
Despite what is said here, this Meletos was the homonymous father of Socrates' accuser (mu 496).
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 4 Aug 2020
- added a link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- supplied headwords; modified translation; added notes; augmented keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝