Θάλεια
goodly, plentiful; Thaleia
Translated by David Whitehead1 Apr 2008Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θάλεια· εὐωχία, ἀπὸ τοῦ θάλλειν. τὴν μὲν δὴ νύκτα ἐκείνην ἐν θαλείαις καὶ εὐπαθείαις διετέλεσαν. καὶ Θάλεια δαίς, ἡ θάλλουσα. σημαίνει καὶ ὄνομα Μούσης.
Betacode
*qa/leia: eu)wxi/a, a)po\ tou= qa/llein. th\n me\n dh\ nu/kta e)kei/nhn e)n qalei/ais kai\ eu)paqei/ais diete/lesan. kai\ *qa/leia dai/s, h( qa/llousa. shmai/nei kai\ o)/noma *mou/shs.
Notes (4)
- 1From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.143; cf. generally theta 12, theta 13, theta 24, theta 25. ↩
- 2Adler suggested Aelian as the source of this quotation; in fact it is a close approximation of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.55.2. See Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXVIII. ↩
- 3For instances of this phrase in Homer, Sophocles and elsewhere see LSJ s.v.
qa/leia . ↩ - 4See under mu 1291. ↩
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