Ὀρφεύς
Orpheus
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝24 Nov 2003Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
From Croton,1 an epic poet; [the one] whom Asclepiades, in book 6 of his Scholars, says lived in the time of the tyrant Peisistratus.2 [He wrote] Ten Years, Argonautica, and some other things.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀρφεύς, Κροτωνιάτης, ἐποποιός· ὃν Πεισιστράτῳ συνεῖναι τῷ τυράννῳ Ἀσκληπιάδης φησὶν ἐν τῷ ʹ2ʹ βιβλίῳ τῶν Γραμματικῶν. Δεκαετηρίδα, Ἀργοναυτικά· καὶ ἄλλα τινά.
Betacode
*)orfeu/s, *krotwnia/ths, e)popoio/s: o(\n *peisistra/tw| sunei=nai tw=| tura/nnw| *)asklhpia/dhs fhsi\n e)n tw=| #2# bibli/w| tw=n *grammatikw=n. *dekaethri/da, *)argonautika/: kai\ a)/lla tina/.
Notes (2)
- See generally under omicron 660.
- 1In the "instep" of S Italy; kappa 2481. ↩
- 2i.e. second half of C6 BCE. (For Peisistratus, tyrant of Athens, see pi 1474.) ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 12 Jan 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- corrigendum, noted by Mario Baier; other tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added notes; augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ross Scaife ✝