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Headword:
Skolion
Adler number: sigma,644
Translated headword: crooked; crooked-song; skolion
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] that which is easy, by antiphrasis. A type of song with few verses.[1] "Of the human good things the one is more honored, the other secondary, as also
Plato says and as a skolion goes."[2] That is to say wealth and health.
Skolion: to rhaidion, kat' antiphrasin. melos ti oligostichon. tôn agathôn tôn anthrôpikôn to men presbuteron, to de deuteron: hôs kai Platôn phêsi kai to skolion aidei. hoion ploutos kai hugieia.
Notes:
The headword is a form of the adjective
skolio/s ('crooked') but is taken here as a related substantive formed from that adjective (but usually accented differently:
sko/lion) referring to a popular type of drinking-song. The latter seems to be the focus of this entry as it is in other entries nearby (with the same accentuation):
sigma 642,
sigma 643,
sigma 645.
[1] cf. scholium to
Plato Gorgias 451E, and
alpha 493;
Photius Library 421b (
Proclus).
[2]
Aelian fr. 343 Hercher; already quoted, with more context, at
alpha 4104 (likewise referring to
Plato,
Gorgias 451E).
Translated by: William Hutton on 26 February 2014@16:19:10.
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