Μέλος τι μελλοδειπνικόν
[I will sing] a certain beginning-of-dinner tune
Translated by Nick Nicholas17 May 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
"Raise up [a kind of going-to-dinner song], the two Cretan feet."1 Aristophanes [writes]: "for soon after follows the lopado-temacho-selacho-galeo-kra-..."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μέλος τι μελλοδειπνικόν ὑπανακίνει Κρητικὼ τὼ πόδε. Ἀριστοφάνης· τάχα γὰρ ἔπεισι λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρά.
Betacode
*me/los ti mellodeipniko/n u(panaki/nei *krhtikw\ tw\ po/de. *)aristofa/nhs: ta/xa ga\r e)/peisi lopadotemaxoselaxogaleokra/.
Notes (2)
- The headword phrase comes from Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 1153; two non-contiguous later passages follow (see below).
- 1Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 1165 (here garbled): "rise up and go away [to dinner]. [You too should move] your [two] feet in the Cretan fashion;" cf. kappa 2410. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 1168-1169, with the seven-verse-long dish here truncated. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 8 Aug 2020
- tweaked again — Catharine Roth
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- supplemented tr; x-ref; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas