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Headword: Διδάσκαλον
Adler number: delta,859
Translated headword: instructor
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In a special sense those they call "instructors" are the poets of the dithyrambs or the comedies or the tragedies.[1]
And Sophocles [writes]: "mortals who are disorderly become bad through the words of instructors".[2]
Greek Original:
Διδάσκαλον: ἰδίως διδασκάλους λέγουσι τοὺς ποιητὰς τῶν διθυράμβων ἢ τῶν κωμῳδιῶν ἢ τῶν τραγῳδῶν. καὶ Σοφοκλῆς: οἱ δ' ἀκοσμοῦντες βροτῶν διδασκάλων λόγοισι γίνονται κακοί.
Notes:
[1] From Harpokration s.v., commenting on the word in Antiphon 6.11 (web address 1).
[2] Sophocles, Philoctetes 387-8 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; poetry; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 October 2000@06:59:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 5 September 2002@08:43:40.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added link) on 11 September 2003@16:12:56.
Catharine Roth (added link) on 3 May 2004@16:20:30.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 5 July 2011@05:27:41.
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