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Headword:
Skolion
Adler number: sigma,643
Translated headword: skolion, scolion
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a song drunk with wine.
Dicaearchus[1] in the [treatise]
On Musical Contests says that there are three genres of songs: one kind sung by everyone one by one, sequentially; another sung by the most talented, as it happened, in order, which was called crooked (
skolio/n) due to its order [sc. of singers].[2] But Aristoxenos and Phyllis the musician[3] [say] that in weddings they positioned many couches around a single table, and holding myrtle branches one after the other in turn they used to sing their sentiments and erotic harmonies. The round [of singing] was crooked, due to the placement of the couches.
Skolion: Tyrannion wrote a commentary on the meter of the skolion, a task assigned to him by Gaius Caesar.[4]
Greek Original:Skolion: hê paroinios ôidê. hôs men Dikaiarchos en tôi Peri mousikôn agônôn, hoti tria genê ên ôidôn: to men hupo pantôn aidomenon kath' hena hexês: to d' hupo tôn sunetôtatôn, hôs etuche, têi taxei: ho dê kaleisthai dia tên taxin skolion. hôs d' Aristoxenos kai Phullis ho mousikos, hoti en tois gamois peri mian trapezan pollas klinas tithentes, para meros hexês murrinas echontes êidon gnômas kai erôtika suntona. hê de periodos skolia egineto, dia tên thesin tôn klinôn. Skolion: hupomnêma egrapsen Turanniôn peri tou skoliou metrou, ho proetathê autôi hupo Gaïou Kaisaros.
Notes:
See also
sigma 642,
sigma 644,
sigma 645.
[1]
Dicaearchus 89 Mirhady.
[2] Having announced three genres, only two now seem to be defined. Comparison with
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 15.694A-B [15.49 Kaibel], suggests the need to posit a lacuna after 'everyone', to make a distinction between a unison and a sequential mode. Wehrli supplemented the Greek text, adding
to\ de/ before
kaq' e(/na; this would yield the translation, "one was sung by all, another (was sung) by each individually one after another, and the last ...".
[3] The name of the latter, cross-referenced at
phi 836, is actually
Phillis (of
Delos), C4 BCE.
[4] See generally
tau 1184.
Keywords: biography; botany; chronology; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; gender and sexuality; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 31 October 2002@21:11:20.
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