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Headword: *(rayw|doi/
Adler number: rho,71
Translated headword: rhapsodes
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the ones reciting the works of Homer in the theaters; they were so called because they recited while holding staffs [rhabdoi].[1] But [the verb] to rhapsodize is to emit nonsense; or simply to take [the staff?] and to declaim, to no purpose.
Greek Original:
*(rayw|doi/: oi( ta\ *(omh/rou e)/ph e)n toi=s qea/trois a)pagge/llontes: oi(\ e)klh/qhsan ou(/tws, e)pei\ r(a/bdous e)/xontes a)ph/ggellon. r(ayw|dh=sai de/ e)sti to\ fluarh=sai: h)\ to\ a(plw=s labei=n kai\ a)paggei=lai, xwri\s e)/rgou tino/s.
Notes:
cf. generally rho 67, rho 68, rho 69, rho 70. The material of the present entry is similar to that in the scholia to Plato, Ion 530A, where the headword occurs.
[1] For this etymology cf. LSJ s.v. r(a/bdos, para.6. An alternative and more common one connects the rhapsodes with the verb r(a/ptein (rho 47, and see LSJ s.v. r(aywdo/s).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: Nathan Greenberg ✝ on 6 October 2002@09:31:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes; augmented keywords; cosmetics) on 6 October 2002@09:54:13.
Ross Scaife ✝ (improved betacode) on 6 October 2002@14:24:35.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 24 August 2011@06:27:54.
David Whitehead on 27 October 2013@09:17:58.
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