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Headword:
Emmeleia
Adler number: epsilon,972
Translated headword: emmeleia, harmony
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A choral dance.[1] [The word is spelled] in two ways: e)mme/leia and e)mmeli/a,[2] [meaning] rhythmical movement.[3]
"For you know how we feel about that harmony of yours."[4]
And a tragic dance with song and the choreography with the words.[5]
Greek Original:Emmeleia: chorikê orchêsis. dichôs, Emmeleia kai Emmelia, hê euruthmia. oistha gar, hopôs diakeimetha peri tên emmelian tên sên. kai hê meta melous tragikê orchêsis kai hê pros tas rhêseis huporchêsis.
Notes:
See already
epsilon 971 and again
pi 3159.
[1] From a gloss on
Herodotus 6.129.2, where the Ionic accusative
e)mmelei/hn occurs in the famous story of Hippokleides squandering his chance to marry the daughter of Kleisthenes of
Sikyon (
omicron 978). See web address 1.
[2] Both spellings, Adler reports, appear in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (792, 795).
[3] cf. a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Frogs 896, where the headword occurs (web address 2).
[4] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as one of the
Letters of John Chrysostom (PG 52.737).
[5] Again from a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Frogs 896.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; Christianity; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; meter and music; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 February 2007@01:25:35.
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