Σκολιόν
drinking-song, skolion
Translated by David Whitehead22 May 2008Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Timocreon of Rhodes, an epic poet,1 wrote such a skolion against wealth. It begins: "o blind Wealth, you ought to appear neither on land nor on sea nor on mainland; no, [you ought] to dwell in Tartaros and Acheron; for because of you everything amongst men [is] bad."2 The measures introduced by Pericles were like this, for Pericles framed a decree as follows: "Megarians are to share in neither market nor sea nor mainland"3 -- creating skolia like those of Timokreon. And again [Aristophanes writes]: "he used to put in place laws written like skolia." [This is said] concerning Perikles. He was a Rhodian, a melic poet.4
Also [sc. attested is] skolios, [meaning] a villain.5
Also [sc. attested is] skolios, [meaning] a villain.5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκολιόν· Τιμοκρέων ὁ Ῥόδιος, ἐποποιός, τοιοῦτον ἔγραψε σκολιὸν κατὰ τοῦ πλούτου, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· ὤφελες, ὦ τυφλὲ Πλοῦτε, μήτε ἐν γῇ μήτε ἐν θαλάττῃ μήτε ἐν ἠπείρῳ φανήμεναι· ἀλλὰ Τάρταρόν τε ναίειν κἀχέροντα· διὰ σὲ γὰρ πάντ' ἐν ἀνθρώποις κακά. τούτοις ἔοικε τὰ ὑπὸ Περικλέους εἰσηγηθέντα· ἔγραψε γὰρ ψήφισμα τοιοῦτον ὁ Περικλῆς· Μεγαρέας μήτ' ἀγορᾶς μήτε θαλάττης μήτ' ἠπείρου μετέχειν· ὅμοια τιθεὶς σκολιὰ τοῖς Τιμοκρέοντος. καὶ αὖθις· νόμους ἐτίθει ὥσπερ σκολιὰ γεγραμμένους. περὶ Περικλέους· ὃς ἦν Ῥόδιος, μελῶν ποιητής. καὶ Σκολιός, ὁ πανοῦργος.
Betacode
*skolio/n: *timokre/wn o( *(ro/dios, e)popoio/s, toiou=ton e)/graye skolio\n kata\ tou= plou/tou, ou(= h( a)rxh/: w)/feles, w)= tufle\ *plou=te, mh/te e)n gh=| mh/te e)n qala/tth| mh/te e)n h)pei/rw| fanh/menai: a)lla\ *ta/rtaro/n te nai/ein ka)xe/ronta: dia\ se\ ga\r pa/nt' e)n a)nqrw/pois kaka/. tou/tois e)/oike ta\ u(po\ *perikle/ous ei)shghqe/nta: e)/graye ga\r yh/fisma toiou=ton o( *periklh=s: *megare/as mh/t' a)gora=s mh/te qala/tths mh/t' h)pei/rou mete/xein: o(/moia tiqei\s skolia\ toi=s *timokre/ontos. kai\ au)=qis: no/mous e)ti/qei w(/sper skolia\ gegramme/nous. peri\ *perikle/ous: o(\s h)=n *(ro/dios, melw=n poihth/s. kai\ *skolio/s, o( panou=rgos.
Notes (5)
- Aristophanes, Acharnians 532-534 (web address 1), with material from the scholia there.
- 1Not quite: see at tau 625 (and n. 4 below). ↩
- 2Timocreon fr. 5. Page (PMG) ↩
- 3A very loose approximation of lines 533-534 (which has four domains: land, market, sea, heaven). ↩
- 4This of course describes not Pericles (pi 1178, pi 1179, pi 1179, pi 1180) but Timocreon himself. ↩
- 5So e.g. Hesiod, Works and Days 7: Zeus straightens out the skolios ('crook'). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- σ643Σκολιόνskolion, scolion[Meaning] a song drunk with wine. Dicaearchus 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…
- 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…
- τ135ΤάρταροςTartaros, TartarusThe lower place of the underworld. And Tartarus is also what they call the place amongst the clouds. [Thus in] On the soul. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Tartarean pit'.
- τ625ΤιμοκρέωνTimokreon, TimocreonOf Rhodes; he too was a poet of Old Comedy. He was at odds with Simonides the melic poet and with the Athenian Themistokles, against whom he contrived a rebuke in poetic form. He wrote a comedy whose target was both…
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Revision history6 revisions · last 29 Dec 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes — David Whitehead
- augmented notes — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; another keyword — David Whitehead
- supplemented translation, added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead