Τηλέπορον
far-reaching, far-travelling
Translated by David Whitehead27 Sep 2012Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [writes]: "some far-travelling shout". In effect, something right and elevated. It is a beginning of a song; just like the [one that begins] "city-sacking Athena".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τηλέπορον· Ἀριστοφάνης· τηλέπορόν τι βόημα. οἷον ὀρθόν τι καὶ ὑψηλόν. ἔστι δὲ ἀρχὴ ᾄσματος· ὥσπερ τό, περσέπολιν Ἀθάναν.
Betacode
*thle/poron: *)aristofa/nhs: thle/poro/n ti bo/hma. oi(=on o)rqo/n ti kai\ u(yhlo/n. e)/sti de\ a)rxh\ a)/|smatos: w(/sper to/, perse/polin *)aqa/nan.
Notes
- From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 967. In that line Aristophanes does use the phrase attributed to him here, and, before it, the phrase "terrible city-sacking Pallas". Both appear to be quotations from earlier poetry, possibly by sigma 1095; Dover (below) 215 has a long, inconclusive note.
References
Aristophanes, Clouds, edited with introduction and commentary by K.J. Dover (Oxford 1968)
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Revision history3 revisions · last 12 Jan 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead