*kelainofah/s: a)nti\ tou= me/laina. *)aristofa/nhs *batra/xois: w)= nukto\s kelainofah\s o)/rfnh.
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1331 (web address 1), with
scholia.
Aristophanes is here parodying the monodies of
Euripides, in the mouth of his character
Aeschylus. First he mocks the blatant redundancy of the words; secondly he uses a characteristic of
Euripides, adding the suffix
-fa/hs to adjectives of colour without adding to the meaning (see Dover ad loc., citing D. Hense in
Philologus 60, 1901, 389). See Dover’s analysis (p. 358ff.) of the whole monody.
See also
omicron 663.
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