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Theocritus · Epigrams §12.1-12.4

Demomeles' Choral Victory and Dedication to Dionysus

Passage 12 of 25 · Greek

Summary

The poem records that Demomeles the choregos, having dedicated a tripod and a statue to Dionysus, was moderate in all things and won a victory with a men's chorus.

§12.1Δημομέλης ὁ χορηγός, ὁ τὸν τρίποδʼ ὦ Διόνυσε §12.2καὶ σὲ τὸν ἥδιστον θεῶν μακάρων ἀναθείς, §12.3μέτριος ἦν ἐν πᾶσι, χορῷ δʼ ἐκτήσατο νίκην §12.4ἀνδρῶν, καὶ τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ προσῆκον ὁρῶν.
Demomeles the choregos, who, O Dionysus, dedicated the tripod and you, the sweetest of the blessed gods, was moderate in all things, and won victory with a chorus of men, keeping his eyes on both the beautiful and the fitting.

Notes

  1. 12.2ὁ ... ἀναθείς — An attributive participle construction modifying the subject Demomeles (12.1). The participle anatheis in 12.2 is separated from its article ho in 12.1 by the vocative o Dionyse and the objects ton tripod' and se ton hediston.
  2. 12.4χορῷ ... ἀνδρῶν — A strong hyperbaton across the line end. The dative choroi in 12.3 and the genitive andron in 12.4 belong together, meaning "with a chorus of men."

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Theocritus, Epigrams §12.1-12.4. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0005.tlg002.humanitext-grc2:12.1-12.4

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