Songs of Modern Greece; With Introductions, Translations, And Notes.
Songs of Modern Greece; With Introductions, Translations, And Notes.
Abbott George Frederick
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irXovrov Xt/xijv Aesch. Fera, 250, Eur. Or. 1077, navTos oltovov Xipriv Soph. A7ltig. 1000, "Aifiou Xifiqv lb, 1284, etc. Others spell it Xi^ft/pi, deriving it from oXiy iy/ic pff» *a place where one dwells the whole dayy To me this etjnnology does not seem satisfactory, but the reader can choose between the two. 6. /iupoAoym, ra\ from pvpopai, 'dirges, laments, wails' ; verb pvpoKoycj (1. 9). 10. 'EXv/xttov] For the dialectic change of O into E cf. 'EXa from ^QpiKov^ etc. 10, 11.... The appeal to birds, trees, and other animate and inanimate objects to share in the sufferer's grief contained in these two lines occurs very frequently in the popular poetry of modem Greece, and may be compared with many exactly similar passages in the works of the ancient bucolic poets, e.g. Epitaph. Adonidia, Epitaph. Bionis, etc. Mr Andrew Lang has embodied the same idea • in his graceful epitaph on Rider Haggard's hero Umslopogaas, pre- fixed to Allan Quatermain : Qprivelr (SpviBfs rov dfUupAKcrov TroXf/itor^v Miydc v6fiop (ovBoi fifkirer drfbovl^tSt etc.
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