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Headword: *damw/mata
Adler number: delta,53
Translated headword: public songs
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the ones sung in public. Aristophanes [writes]: "it is necessary that the wise poet sing such public songs of the well-tressed Graces."[1]
Greek Original:
*damw/mata: ta\ dhmosi/a| a)|do/mena. *)aristofa/nhs: toia/de xrh\ *xari/twn damw/mata kalliko/mwn to\n sofo\n poihth\n u(mnei=n.
Notes:
The headword, a neuter plural, Doric dialect, is extracted from the lyric quotation given.
[1] Aristophanes, Peace 797-9 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there; cf. also kappa 222.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; meter and music
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 July 2002@20:11:17.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; cosmetics) on 21 July 2002@04:23:10.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; cosmetics) on 14 June 2012@06:17:19.
David Whitehead on 5 October 2015@11:18:27.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 9 July 2016@22:31:53.
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