Τριταγωνιστής

third-part-actor, third-part-player

Translated by David Whitehead18 May 2011Vetting: high4 revisions

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Aeschines in many [passages] is jeered at by Demosthenes as an actor of tragedies, and he calls him a 'third-part-player',¹ implying a very unesteemed actor, numbering amongst the third-raters.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τριταγωνιστής· Αἰσχίνης ἐν πολλοῖς σκώπτεται ὑπὸ Δημοσθένους ὡς ὑποκριτὴς τραγῳδιῶν, καὶ τριταγωνιστὴν αὐτόν φησιν, ὡς ἀδοκιμώτατον τῶν ὑποκριτῶν, ἐν τρίτῃ τάξει καταριθμῶν.

Betacode

*tritagwnisth/s: *ai)sxi/nhs e)n polloi=s skw/ptetai u(po\ *dhmosqe/nous w(s u(pokrith\s tragw|diw=n, kai\ tritagwnisth\n au)to/n fhsin, w(s a)dokimw/taton tw=n u(pokritw=n, e)n tri/th| ta/cei katariqmw=n.

Notes (1)

For this headword in its literal sense see tau 1012.
1Demosthenes 18.129, 209, 267, etc. (And for something comparable see 19.10: Ischandros acts as 'second-part-player' to Aeschines.) ↩

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τ1012Τριταγωνιστήςthird-part-actor, third-part-player, tritagonist[sc. A term originating] from Sophocles, who was the first to use three actors and the so-called tritagonist.

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τ1009Τρίστομοςthree-mouthed, three-pointed τ1010Τριστοιχείthree-rowed τ1011Τριταγωνιστήςthird-part-actor, third-part-player τ1012Τριταγωνιστήςthird-part-actor, third-part-player, tritagonist τ1013Τριτάλαντον βάροςthree-talent weight

Revision history4 revisions · last 15 Jan 2014

15 Jan 2014Revised — David Whitehead
15 Aug 2011Revised — David Whitehead
23 May 2011expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
22 May 2011set status — Catharine Roth
18 May 2011Translated — David Whitehead

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