Τραγῳδία
tragedy
Translated by Jennifer Benedict24 Sep 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] exaggerated complaint.1
Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "perhaps it is a Fury from a tragedy." For the ways of repelling phantoms fit tragic poets better, and in tragedies the Furies used to come on with torches.2
"But as to how things happened, it is the work of someone wishing to write a tragedy, not chronicling a history".3 And elsewhere: "[she] suffering things worthy of a tragedy."4
Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "perhaps it is a Fury from a tragedy." For the ways of repelling phantoms fit tragic poets better, and in tragedies the Furies used to come on with torches.2
"But as to how things happened, it is the work of someone wishing to write a tragedy, not chronicling a history".3 And elsewhere: "[she] suffering things worthy of a tragedy."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τραγῳδία· δεινοπάθεια. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· ἴσως Ἐριννύς ἐστιν ἐκ τραγῳδίας. τὰ γὰρ ἀποτρόπαια τῶν φαντασμάτων τραγῳδοῖς μᾶλλον ἁρμόττει, ἐν δὲ ταῖς τραγῳδίαις μετὰ λαμπάδων εἰσήρχοντο αἱ Ἐριννύες. τὸ δὲ ὅπως ἐγένοντο, τραγῳδίαν βουλομένου γράφειν ἐστίν, οὐχ ἱστορίαν συγγράφοντος. καὶ αὖθις· παθοῦσα τραγῳδίας ἄξια.
Betacode
*tragw|di/a: deinopa/qeia. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: i)/sws *)erinnu/s e)stin e)k tragw|di/as. ta\ ga\r a)potro/paia tw=n fantasma/twn tragw|doi=s ma=llon a(rmo/ttei, e)n de\ tai=s tragw|di/ais meta\ lampa/dwn ei)sh/rxonto ai( *)erinnu/es. to\ de\ o(/pws e)ge/nonto, tragw|di/an boulome/nou gra/fein e)sti/n, ou)x i(stori/an suggra/fontos. kai\ au)=qis: paqou=sa tragw|di/as a)/cia.
Notes (4)
- 1Likewise in other lexica (references at Photius tau413 Theodoridis), and cf. the scholia to Plato, Republic 394C, where the headword occurs. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 423 (see web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. For the Furies see generally epsilon 2994, epsilon 2995. ↩
- 3Evidently a quotation, and the note in Adler reasonably suggests Polybius (known for his contempt of hellenistic "tragic history") as its author. ↩
- 4Aelian fr. 53i Domingo-Forasté, quoted more fully at tau 636. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history8 revisions · last 2 Jul 2014
- tweaked note 4 — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked note, upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict