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Headword: Murmêx
Adler number: mu,1445
Translated headword: ant
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"Ant-hills, or what is he crooning about?" He is speaking about Agathon the poet,[1] as someone striking up light and intricate tunes; for the paths of ants are like that. But Agathon used to create tunes for actors, and was an actor himself; hence [his compositions] are also called choric.
Greek Original:
Murmêx: murmêkôn atrapous ê ti diaminurizetai. peri Agathônos phêsi tou poiêtou, hôs lepta kai ankula anakrouomenou melê: toiautai gar hai tôn murmêkôn hodoi. ho de Agathôn hupokritika melê epoiei kai autos hupokrinetai. dio kai chorika legetai.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 100 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. chi 403.
[1] alpha 124.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; imagery; meter and music; poetry; stagecraft; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 July 2009@05:37:17.
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