Προσόδια
processionals, prosodia
Translated by William Hutton2 Sep 2013Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] hymns. A beginning of a processional: "what is finer for those beginning or ending [a song] than to sing of the drivers of swift horses?"1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προσόδια· ὕμνοι. ἀρχὴ προσοδίου· τί κάλλιον ἀρχομένοισιν ἢ καταπαυομένοισιν ἢ θοῶν ἵππων ἐλατῆρας ἀείδειν;
Betacode
*proso/dia: u(/mnoi. a)rxh\ prosodi/ou: ti/ ka/llion a)rxome/noisin h)\ katapauome/noisin h)\ qow=n i(/ppwn e)lath=ras a)ei/dein;
Notes (1)
- See also pi 2756.
- 1Aristophanes, Knights 1264-1266 -- a modified version, according to the scholia on this passage, of the beginning of a prosodion by Pindar (fr. 89a Snell-Maehler). Unlike the scholia, the Suda presents Aristophanes' pastiche rather than the original words of Pindar: "What is finer for those beginning or ending [a song] than to sing of deep-girdled Leto and the [feminine] driver of swift horses?" ↩
Linked from2 entries
- π2756Προσόδιαprocessionals, prosodia[sc. The term comes] from processions. That is what they used to call the parades that were conducted for the gods. Also [called] processionals [are] the poems recited by lyric poets at the festivals of the gods.
- π2772Προσῳδίαprosody[prosodia]; and [sc. also attested is neuter] prosodion: [meaning] the hymn.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 30 Nov 2021
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton