Φαλῆς
Phales
Translated by Ioannis Doukas19 Jan 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Accented?] like Hermes.
Phales [nominative],*falh=tos [genitive].
Just as Homer joined together consternation with flight and said that it was its companion, “wondrous Panic possessed [the Achaeans]”, he said, “the companion of numbing fear”;1 so too the Comic poet, taking the starting-point from there, said that Phales is companion to Dionysus;2 for sexual pleasures accompany the Dionysiac drink [i.e. wine].3
Phalliones [are] those who campaign in honour of Dionysus to provoke laughter, called thus after the Dionysiac phalluses.4 Later on they call them polliones, altering the word.
Phales [nominative],
Just as Homer joined together consternation with flight and said that it was its companion, “wondrous Panic possessed [the Achaeans]”, he said, “the companion of numbing fear”;1 so too the Comic poet, taking the starting-point from there, said that Phales is companion to Dionysus;2 for sexual pleasures accompany the Dionysiac drink [i.e. wine].3
Phalliones [are] those who campaign in honour of Dionysus to provoke laughter, called thus after the Dionysiac phalluses.4 Later on they call them polliones, altering the word.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φαλῆς· ὡς Ἑρμῆς. Φαλῆς, Φαλῆτος. ὥσπερ Ὅμηρος ἥρμοσε κατάπληξιν τῇ φυγῇ καὶ ἑταίραν αὐτῆς ἔφησεν εἶναι, θεσπεσίη ἔχε φύζα [εἰπών], φόβου κρυόεντος ἑταίρη· οὕτω καὶ ὁ Κωμικὸς ἐκεῖθεν λαβὼν τὰς ἀφορμὰς Διονύσῳ Φαλῆν ἑταῖρον εἶναί φησιν· ἀκόλουθα γὰρ Διονυσιακῷ πότῳ τὰ ἀφροδίσια. Φαλλίονες δὲ εἰς τιμὴν τοῦ Διονύσου ἐπὶ γέλωτι στρατευόμενοι, οὕτω καλούμενοι ἀπὸ τῶν φαλλῶν τοῦ Διονύσου. πολλίωνας δὲ ὕστερον αὐτοὺς παραφθείροντες τὸ ὄνομα ὀνομάζουσιν.
Betacode
*falh=s: w(s *(ermh=s. *falh=s, *falh=tos. w(/sper *(/omhros h(/rmose kata/plhcin th=| fugh=| kai\ e(tai/ran au)th=s e)/fhsen ei)=nai, qespesi/h e)/xe fu/za [ei)pw/n], fo/bou kruo/entos e(tai/rh: ou(/tw kai\ o( *kwmiko\s e)kei=qen labw\n ta\s a)forma\s *dionu/sw| *falh=n e(tai=ron ei)=nai/ fhsin: a)ko/louqa ga\r *dionusiakw=| po/tw| ta\ a)frodi/sia. *falli/ones de\ ei)s timh\n tou= *dionu/sou e)pi\ ge/lwti strateuo/menoi, ou(/tw kalou/menoi a)po\ tw=n fallw=n tou= *dionu/sou. polli/wnas de\ u(/steron au)tou\s parafqei/rontes to\ o)/noma o)noma/zousin.
Notes (4)
- 1Homer, Iliad 9.2 (web address 1). ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Acharnians 263-279 (web address 2); see further, next note. ↩
- 3Up to this point the entry quotes the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 263. (The rest is unidentifiable; Adler's suggestion of a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus rests on no discernible basis.) ↩
- 4cf. iota 250, iota 251, phi 58. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 4 Dec 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- tweaks and keyword — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas