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Headword: *)ec a(ma/chs
Adler number: epsilon,1530
Translated headword: from a wagon, out of a wagon
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The festival that is called Lenaia among Athenians, in which the poets used to compete by writing certain songs designed to inspire laughter; [the one] that Demosthenes [sc. had in mind when he] said "from a wagon".[1] For the singers used to speak and sing the poems while sitting on wagons. It is also called the Lenaite chorus, that of the Lenaia.
Greek Original:
*)ec a(ma/chs: h( legome/nh e(orth\ par' *)aqhnai/ois *lh/naia, e)n h(=| h)gwni/zonto oi( poihtai\ suggra/fonte/s tina a)/|smata tou= gelasqh=nai xa/rin: o(/per *dhmosqe/nhs e)c a(ma/chs ei)=pen. e)f' a(macw=n ga\r oi( a)/|dontes kaqh/menoi e)/lego/n te kai\ h)=|don ta\ poih/mata. le/getai kai\ *lhnai/+ths xoro/s, o( tw=n *lhnai/wn.
Notes:
Derived from the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 547 (web address 1), where the headword phrase does not occur, but the rite in question is referred to with the term qo/rubon ... *lenai+/thn ('Lenaite ruckus'); cf. tau 19.
For the Lenaia see also lambda 454, lambda 455, lambda 456, lambda 457, lambda 458.
[1] Demosthenes 18.122 (web address 2), thus characterising Aeschines' attacks on him (as loud and vulgar).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; geography; imagery; meter and music; poetry; politics; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 August 2007@04:36:15.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added cross-references, set status) on 18 August 2007@13:48:59.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1 and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 19 August 2007@05:52:21.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 10 September 2012@04:41:34.
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