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Headword: *)alkmaniko\n ei)=dos
Adler number: alpha,1290
Translated headword: Alcmanic form
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the one which is frequent in Alcman, [i.e.] arranging the verb in between the nouns on both sides. And [sc. this also occurs] in Homer: "where the rivers Simoeis flow together and Scamander."
Greek Original:
*)alkmaniko\n ei)=dos: o(/per pepleo/nake para\ *)alkma=ni, to\ kat' a)mfo/tera r(h=ma metacu\ tw=n o)noma/twn tetaxe/nai. kai\ par' *(omh/rw|: h(=|xi r(oa\s *simo/eis sumba/lleton h)de\ *ska/mandros.
Notes:
The quotation is Homer, Iliad 5.774 (web address 1), and this is from the scholia on the line (cf. Eustathius ad loc.). Alternatively known as the Alcmanic figure. For further examples see the scholia to Iliad 18.514, 20.138, Odyssey 10.513; Herodian, de figuris 101.19ff.; Porphyrius, Quaestiones Homericae i.34.8ff.
For Alcman see alpha 1289.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; epic; meter and music; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 23 May 2000@01:54:25.
Vetted by:
Ross Scaife ✝ on 23 May 2000@07:56:22.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 17 June 2001@06:30:13.
Robert Dyer (Added references to the stylistic figure. Raised status) on 3 May 2002@04:17:53.
David Whitehead on 7 February 2012@09:17:49.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 26 March 2012@00:34:47.
David Whitehead on 8 June 2015@11:50:22.

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