Σκολιόν
skolion, scolion
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝31 Oct 2002Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a song drunk with wine. Dicaearchus1 in the [treatise] On Musical Contests says that there are three genres of songs: one kind sung by everyone one by one, sequentially; another sung by the most talented, as it happened, in order, which was called crooked (skolio/n ) due to its order [sc. of singers].2 But Aristoxenos and Phyllis the musician3 [say] that in weddings they positioned many couches around a single table, and holding myrtle branches one after the other in turn they used to sing their sentiments and erotic harmonies. The round [of singing] was crooked, due to the placement of the couches.
Skolion: Tyrannion wrote a commentary on the meter of the skolion, a task assigned to him by Gaius Caesar.4
Skolion: Tyrannion wrote a commentary on the meter of the skolion, a task assigned to him by Gaius Caesar.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκολιόν· ἡ παροίνιος ᾠδή. ὡς μὲν Δικαίαρχος ἐν τῷ Περὶ μουσικῶν ἀγώνων, ὅτι τρία γένη ἦν ᾠδῶν· τὸ μὲν ὑπὸ πάντων ᾀδόμενον καθ' ἕνα ἑξῆς· τὸ δ' ὑπὸ τῶν συνετωτάτων, ὡς ἔτυχε, τῇ τάξει· ὃ δὴ καλεῖσθαι διὰ τὴν τάξιν σκολιόν. ὡς δ' Ἀριστόξενος καὶ Φύλλις ὁ μουσικός, ὅτι ἐν τοῖς γάμοις περὶ μίαν τράπεζαν πολλὰς κλίνας τιθέντες, παρὰ μέρος ἑξῆς μυρρίνας ἔχοντες ᾖδον γνώμας καὶ ἐρωτικὰ σύντονα. ἡ δὲ περίοδος σκολιὰ ἐγίνετο, διὰ τὴν θέσιν τῶν κλινῶν. Σκολιόν· ὑπόμνημα ἔγραψεν Τυραννίων περὶ τοῦ σκολιοῦ μέτρου, ὃ προετάθη αὐτῷ ὑπὸ Γαΐου Καίσαρος.
Betacode
*skolio/n: h( paroi/nios w)|dh/. w(s me\n *dikai/arxos e)n tw=| *peri\ mousikw=n a)gw/nwn, o(/ti tri/a ge/nh h)=n w)|dw=n: to\ me\n u(po\ pa/ntwn a)|do/menon kaq' e(/na e(ch=s: to\ d' u(po\ tw=n sunetwta/twn, w(s e)/tuxe, th=| ta/cei: o(\ dh\ kalei=sqai dia\ th\n ta/cin skolio/n. w(s d' *)aristo/cenos kai\ *fu/llis o( mousiko/s, o(/ti e)n toi=s ga/mois peri\ mi/an tra/pezan polla\s kli/nas tiqe/ntes, para\ me/ros e(ch=s murri/nas e)/xontes h)=|don gnw/mas kai\ e)rwtika\ su/ntona. h( de\ peri/odos skolia\ e)gi/neto, dia\ th\n qe/sin tw=n klinw=n. *skolio/n: u(po/mnhma e)/grayen *turanni/wn peri\ tou= skoliou= me/trou, o(\ proeta/qh au)tw=| u(po\ *gai/+ou *kai/saros.
Notes (4)
- See also sigma 642, sigma 644, sigma 645.
- 1Dicaearchus 89 Mirhady. ↩
- 2Having announced three genres, only two now seem to be defined. Comparison with Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.694A-B [15.49 Kaibel], suggests the need to posit a lacuna after 'everyone', to make a distinction between a unison and a sequential mode. Wehrli supplemented the Greek text, adding
to\ de/ beforekaq' e(/na ; this would yield the translation, "one was sung by all, another (was sung) by each individually one after another, and the last ...". ↩ - 3The name of the latter, cross-referenced at phi 836, is actually Phillis (of Delos), C4 BCE. ↩
- 4See generally tau 1184. ↩
Linked from3 entries
- ο804Οὐδὲν πρὸς ἔποςnothing for a wordMeaning at random, for the sake of nothing at all.
- σ644Σκολιόνcrooked; crooked-song; skolion[Meaning] that which is easy, by antiphrasis. A type of song with few verses. "Of the human good things the one is more honored, the other secondary, as also Plato says and as a skolion goes." That is to say wealth and…
- φ836Φυλλίςleaf; Phyllis[Meaning] that of the tree. Also [sc. attested is] Phyllis, the musician.
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Revision history10 revisions · last 5 Mar 2022
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- corrected/expanded a ref — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.3 — David Whitehead
- tidying up — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Mirhady
- another tweak — David Whitehead
- another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ross Scaife ✝