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Headword:
Leschê
Adler number: lambda,309
Translated headword: lounging, lounge; conversation
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] socialising a lot, prattle. In the old days
leschai was the name for the seats and places in which men were accustomed to congregate and philosophize. So says, too,
Hierocles in [book] 1 of
Philosophical Subjects.[1]
Herodotus [writes]: "and yet when a conversation had taken place, [sc. about] which of them was the best."[2]
"I remembered, how many times we had both let the sun set in conversation. But though you, Halicarnassian guest, [are] long, long ago dust, your nightingales live on".[3]
In Hesiod a
lesche [is] a kiln.[4]
Greek Original:Leschê: pollê homilia, phluaria. to de palaion hai kathedrai kai hoi topoi, en hois eiôthesan athroizomenoi philosophein, leschai ekalounto. houtô phêsi kai Hieroklês en a# Philosophoumenôn. Hêrodotos: kaitoi genomenês leschês, hos genoito autôn aristos. emnêsthên, hosakis amphoteroi hêlion en leschêi katedusamen. alla su men pou, xein' Halikarnêseu, tetrapalai spodiê: hai de teai zôousin aêdones. Leschê de para Hêsiodôi hê kaminos.
Notes:
For this headword see already
lambda 308; and cf.
lambda 310.
[1] (
Hierocles fr.2 von Arnim.) Same or similar material in other lexica: see the references at
Photius lambda210 Theodoridis.
[2]
Herodotus 9.71.3, on brave Spartans in Persian-War battles (web address 1).
[3] From
Callimachus' famous epitaph for the elegiac poet
Heraclitus of Halicarnassus:
Greek Anthology 7.80 (
Diogenes Laertius 9.17), lines 2-5. On this epigram, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 65-66) and (vol. II, 191-192). Gow and Page note (vol. I, 65) that the
Anthologia Palatina (AP) assumed that this epigram was addressed--as was the preceding epigram,
Greek Anthology 7.79 (Meleager [
Author,
Myth])--to the philosopher
Heraclitus of
Ephesus (
eta 472), an error corrected by the AP scribe designated J (the Lemmatist). Gow and Page further observe that while
a)hdo/nes (
nightingales) could well be interpreted metaphorically as a poetical legacy, they find attractive the suggestion of H. Stadtmüller (1845-1906), followed by Paton (49), that
Nightingales was the title of a book containing the Halicarnassian's works.
[4] Hesiod,
Works and Days 493 (web address 2), here wrongly interpreted. (For kiln, see
kappa 284.)
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1965)
W.R. Paton, trans., The Greek Anthology: Books VII-VIII, (Cambridge, MA 1993)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: chronology; daily life; definition; historiography; imagery; military affairs; philosophy; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 March 2009@04:59:32.
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