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Headword: Antôidê
Adler number: alpha,2757
Translated headword: antode, response
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In the comic poets [it is] the antistrophe.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)ntw|do/n ["responsive"], [meaning] corresponding.[2]
"But often, like some echo, I struck up a clamorous, mocking harmony with responsive lips, now I fall down voiceless and tongueless and lie on the earth, having renounced my zealous mimicry".[3]
Greek Original:
Antôidê: para tois kômikois hê antistrophê. kai Antôidon, katallêlon. pollaki de krexasa poluthroon, hoia tis êchô, kertomon antôidois cheilesin harmonian, nun es gan aglôssos anaudêtos te pesousa keimai, mimêtan zêlon anênamena.
Notes:
[1] See generally LSJ s.v.
[2] Masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective; either way, quoted from somewhere (other than the quotation about to be given, which has the dative plural).
[3] Greek Anthology 7.191.3-6 (Archias), epitaph for a jay; cf. Gow and Page (412-413); cf. alpha 271, alpha 2742, and kappa 1422.
Reference:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; meter and music; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 November 2000@21:37:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 12 November 2000@10:58:42.
David Whitehead (augmented note; restorative and other cosmetics) on 15 August 2002@06:50:33.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 19 March 2012@07:44:54.
David Whitehead on 27 July 2015@10:24:41.
Catharine Roth (tweaked betacode) on 29 August 2015@17:57:53.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keywords) on 5 November 2018@21:47:10.

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