Παρῳδούμενος
being parodied
Translated by Alan Sommerstein11 Dec 2003Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] being said.1
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]parw|di/a ["parody"]: this is what it is called when words are taken over from tragedy into comedy;2 as for instance "a worthwhile thing for Greece", said both in Euripides3 and in Aristophanes.4
And elsewhere: "these things were sung and parodied with a certain pronunciation, and the mania for singing them rose sky-high."5 Procopius says [this].6
Also [sc. attested is]parw|dh/kei , [meaning he/she/it] sang another song. Or parw|dh/kei , meaning [he/she/it swelled up.7
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]
And elsewhere: "these things were sung and parodied with a certain pronunciation, and the mania for singing them rose sky-high."5 Procopius says [this].6
Also [sc. attested is]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παρῳδούμενος· λεγόμενος. καὶ Παρῳδία· οὕτω λέγεται ὅταν ἐκ τραγῳδίας μετενεχθῇ λόγος εἰς κωμῳδίαν· οἷόν ἐστι τό, ἄξιον γὰρ Ἑλλάδι, παρ' Εὐριπίδῃ καὶ παρ' Ἀριστοφάνει εἰρημένον. καὶ αὖθις· κατὰ δή τινα προφορὰν ᾀσθέντα καὶ παρῳδηθέντα ἡ περὶ ταῦτα μουσομανία τοῖς ἄστροις ἐπέψαυε. Προκόπιός φησι. καὶ Παρῳδήκει, ἄλλην ᾖσεν ᾠδήν. ἢ Παρῳδήκει, ἀντὶ τοῦ ὠγκώθη.
Betacode
*parw|dou/menos: lego/menos. kai\ *parw|di/a: ou(/tw le/getai o(/tan e)k tragw|di/as metenexqh=| lo/gos ei)s kwmw|di/an: oi(=o/n e)sti to/, a)/cion ga\r *(ella/di, par' *eu)ripi/dh| kai\ par' *)aristofa/nei ei)rhme/non. kai\ au)=qis: kata\ dh/ tina profora\n a)|sqe/nta kai\ parw|dhqe/nta h( peri\ tau=ta mousomani/a toi=s a)/strois e)pe/yaue. *proko/pio/s fhsi. kai\ *parw|dh/kei, a)/llhn h)=|sen w)|dh/n. h)\ *parw|dh/kei, a)nti\ tou= w)gkw/qh.
Notes (7)
- 1The headword -- evidently extracted from somewhere -- is the present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb
parw|de/w . Same glossing in other lexica: references at Photius pi456, where however Theodoridis declares cautious support for G. Dindorf's emendation of the glossing participle from the neutrallego/menos toyego/menos . ↩ - 2This explanation is taken from the scholia on Aristophanes, Acharnians 8 (see n. 4 below). It is, of course, at once too broad and too narrow; another scholion on the same play (v.120) speaks of its lemma being parodied from an epode of Archilochos. ↩
- 3Euripides fr. 720 (from the Telephos). ↩
- 4Aristophanes, Acharnians 8. ↩
- 5Lit. "touched the stars". ↩
- 6This sentence is not to be found in the surviving works either of the historian P. of Caesarea (pi 2479) or of his ecclesiastical namesake P. of Gaza; a variant form of it is, however, cited again, without attribution, at mu 1300. Hemsterhuys assigned the quotation to Eunapius. As de Boor points out, many entries imported into the Suda from the excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus have lost the correct identification of their sources. Someone may have guessed from the content of this quotation that it might come from the Caesarean's Anekdota (Secret History). ↩
- 7The point is that the verb-form
parw|dh/kei (third person singular, pluperfect active) might come either fromparw|de/w "sing differently, parody" or fromparoide/w "swell up". The citation of a third-person form indicates that the word is extracted, directly or indirectly, from an actual text, but it cannot be identified:parw|dh/kei does not occur in any text included in the TLG that is older than the Suda itself. (For the first of the Suda's glosses cf. in any event the phraseeu)= ge parw|/deis in Lucian, Charon [Author, Myth] 14, where the gloss of the scholia iskalw=s ge a)/llhn h|(=sas w|)dh/n .) ↩
References
Dane, Joseph A. Parody: critical concepts versus literary practices. Aristophanes to Sterne. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988
de Boor, C., "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 419
Dobrov, Gregory W. Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 89-156
Rau, Peter. Paratragodia: Untersuchung einer komischen Form des Aristophanes. Munich: Beck, 1967
de Boor, C., "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 419
Dobrov, Gregory W. Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 89-156
Rau, Peter. Paratragodia: Untersuchung einer komischen Form des Aristophanes. Munich: Beck, 1967
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Revision history5 revisions · last 24 Jun 2014
- expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
- expanded notes; cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics, tweaks, bibliography — Catharine Roth
- small additions to notes; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Alan Sommerstein