Ὀκρίβας
platform, tribune
Translated by Ronald Allen18 Nov 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] in a special sense the stage [skene] of all speakers.1 The assembled frameworks upon which they fabricate images, and [sc. also] the underpinnings of wooden theaters. [sc. It would be] better to say the speaking-place, on which stood the tragedians,2 or [sc. on which] the actors, from high above the ground, used to speak.3 But some say that this an 'ass', some a 'wild ram', others a 'ladder'.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀκρίβας· σκηνὴ ἰδίως πάντων τῶν λεγόντων. τὰ πλαστικὰ πήγματα, ἐφ' οἷς διατυποῦσι τὰς εἰκόνας, καὶ τὰ ὑπερείσματα τῶν ξυλίνων θεάτρων. βέλτιον φάναι τὸ λογεῖον, ἐφ' οὗ ἵσταντο οἱ τραγῳδοὶ ἢ οἱ ὑποκριταὶ ἐκ μετεώρου καὶ ἔλεγον. οἱ δὲ ὄνον φασιν εἶναι, οἱ δὲ ἄγριον κριόν, ἄλλοι κλίμακα.
Betacode
*)okri/bas: skhnh\ i)di/ws pa/ntwn tw=n lego/ntwn. ta\ plastika\ ph/gmata, e)f' oi(=s diatupou=si ta\s ei)ko/nas, kai\ ta\ u(perei/smata tw=n culi/nwn qea/trwn. be/ltion fa/nai to\ logei=on, e)f' ou(= i(/stanto oi( tragw|doi\ h)\ oi( u(pokritai\ e)k metew/rou kai\ e)/legon. oi( de\ o)/non fasin ei)=nai, oi( de\ a)/grion krio/n, a)/lloi kli/maka.
Notes (4)
- The headword, already at omicron 121 (accusative plural) and omicron 122, is a masculine noun in the nominative singular; see LSJ s.v. It is probably generated by Plato, Symposium 194B (web address 1), where it occurs in the accusative singular,
o)kri/banta , or from the corresponding scholion (see n. 3 below); cf. Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon 997a23. - 1The headword is identically glossed in Photius' Lexicon (next note); cf. Timaeus's Platonic Lexicon 997a17. For skene see sigma 569. ↩
- 2To this point the Suda is identical to the entry in Photius' Lexicon (omicron186 Theodoridis), except that the latter reads
i(/stantai , they stand, the finite verb thus completing the thought; cf. LSJ s.v.i(/sthmi . [In her critical apparatus Adler notes that mss AFV transmitlo/gion , oracle, and that the Dutch scholar Tiberius Hemsterhuys (1685-1766) emended the text so thate)k metew/rou followede)/legon : used to speak from high above the ground.] ↩ - 3Evidently paraphrased from the scholia to Plato, Symposium 194B (web address 1); cf. Hesychius omicron488 (adduced by Bernhardy), Etymologicum Magnum 620.55 (Kallierges), and ps.-Zonaras 1438.21-5. ↩
- 4cf. (again) Hesychius s.v. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 22 Dec 2014
- coding, tweak — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- modifications to tr; another x-ref; more keywords; other tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen