Τιμόλαος
Timolaus, Timolaos
Translated by Malcolm Heath26 Mar 1999Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
A Larissaean from Macedonia.1 Rhetor. A pupil of Anaximenes of Lampsacus.2 Being of a poetic inclination, he inserted a line after each line of the Iliad, and gave the composition the title Troicus: 'Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilles, which he conceived enraged over Chryses' daughter, and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaeans as they fought, when they made war on the Trojans without their lord, hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls of men at Hector's hands, cut down by the spear.'3 He also wrote a number of other works.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τιμόλαος, Λαρισσαῖος ἐκ Μακεδονίας, ῥήτωρ, Ἀναξιμένους τοῦ Λαμψακηνοῦ μαθητής· ὃς καὶ ποιητικῶς ἔχων παρενέβαλε τῇ Ἰλιάδι στίχον πρὸς στίχον καὶ ἐπέγραψε τὸ σύνταγμα Τρωϊκόν. μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος, ἣν ἔθετο Χρύσου κεχολωμένος εἵνεκα κούρης, οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί' Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε' ἔθηκε μαρναμένοις, ὅτε Τρωσὶν ἄτερ πολέμιζον ἄνακτος. πολλὰς δ' ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς ἄϊδι προΐαψεν Ἕκτορος ἐν παλάμῃσι δαϊζομένων ὑπὸ δουρί. ἔγραψε καὶ ἄλλα τινά.
Betacode
*timo/laos, *larissai=os e)k *makedoni/as, r(h/twr, *)anacime/nous tou= *lamyakhnou= maqhth/s: o(\s kai\ poihtikw=s e)/xwn parene/bale th=| *)ilia/di sti/xon pro\s sti/xon kai\ e)pe/graye to\ su/ntagma *trwi+ko/n. mh=nin a)/eide qea\ *phlhi+a/dew *)axilh=os, h(\n e)/qeto *xru/sou kexolwme/nos ei(/neka kou/rhs, ou)lome/nhn, h(\ muri/' *)axaioi=s a)/lge' e)/qhke marname/nois, o(/te *trwsi\n a)/ter pole/mizon a)/naktos. polla\s d' i)fqi/mous yuxa\s a)/i+di proi/+ayen *(/ektoros e)n pala/mh|si dai+zome/nwn u(po\ douri/. e)/graye kai\ a)/lla tina/.
Notes (3)
- RE Timolaos(6).
- 1The qualification -- 'from Lacedaemonia', absurdly, in ms F -- is thought necessary because there were cities of that name in Syria and elsewhere. ↩
- 2[alpha 1989] Anaximenes. ↩
- 3Homer, Iliad 1.1-3 (in Lattimore's translation), with Timolaus' added lines. For an Iliad with inserted pentameters see pi 1551. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 24 Mar 2014
- tweaked tr; another note — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; another x-ref — David Whitehead
- added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Malcolm Heath