Ὅμαυλος

piping along, piping together

Translated by Catharine Roth11 Dec 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

1 note · 13 words

[Meaning] crying out together, singing in unison. "And a mournful voice piping along."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὅμαυλος· ὁμόθρους, ὁμόφωνος. στονόεσσά τε γῆρυς ὅμαυλος. Σοφοκλῆς.

Betacode

*(/omaulos: o(mo/qrous, o(mo/fwnos. stono/essa/ te gh=rus o(/maulos. *sofoklh=s.

Notes (1)

The headword is extracted from the quotation.
1Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 185, in a choral passage (web address 1), with scholion. ↩

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

μ293ΜαυλίαςknivesThey used to call machairai this [i.e. mauliai], because of being encamped together (homou aulizesthai), as [if to say] homaulias.

Neighbouring entries

ο225Ὄμμα γὰρ αἰθέρος ἀκάματον σελαγεῖταιfor the eye of the sky shines tirelessly ο226Ὅμαδοςdin ο227Ὅμαυλοςpiping along, piping together ο228Ὁμαλέςlevel ο229Ὁμαρτῶνaccompanying

Revision history3 revisions · last 9 Jan 2021

9 Jan 2021added a link — Catharine Roth
25 Jun 2013Revised — David Whitehead
13 Dec 2009augmented note; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
11 Dec 2009Translated — Catharine Roth