Monday, June 30, 2025
Forms of Address
Jeffrey Henderson on Aristophanes, Lysistrata 7:
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"Σ Pl. Tht. 178E" = Scholium on Plato, Theaetetus 178E, in William Chase Greene, ed., Scholia Platonica (1938; rpt. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1988), p. 32:
See also Eleanor Dickey, Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 65-72 (ὦ τέκνον), p. 160 (ὦ μέλε), pp. 161-163 (ὦ τάλαν).
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ὦ μέλε παρὰ τοῖς νεωτέροις ὑπὸ γυναικῶν λέγεται μόνον, ὡς τὸ ὦ τάλαν, παρὰ δὲ τοῖς παλαιοῖς καὶ ὑπ᾿ ἀνδρῶν, ὡς ἐν Ἱππεῦσιν ᾿Αριστοφάνους (676), καὶ ἐν Μενάνδρου Συνερῶσιν (fr. 457 Kock) —Dedoussi = Christina Dedoussi, "Studies in Comedy" Hellenika 18 (1964) 1–10.
ἄφες τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τί κόπτεις, ὦ μέλε;
σημαίνει δέ, ὦ δείλαιε, ὦ πονηρέ. ἔνιοι δέ, ὦ ἐπιμελείας ἄξιε καὶ οἷον μεμελημένε.
See also Eleanor Dickey, Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 65-72 (ὦ τέκνον), p. 160 (ὦ μέλε), pp. 161-163 (ὦ τάλαν).
