Citations:περισπασμός

Ancient Greek citations of περισπασμός (perispasmós)

• late 1st C. BC, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Περὶ Συνθέσεως Ὀνομάτων in The Critical Essays II (Loeb Classical Library № 466, 1985), American →ISBN, British →ISBN, chapter xi, paragraph 4 (page 80, lines 5–19):

  σῖγα σῖγα, λευκὸν ἴχνος ἀρβύλης // τίθετε, μὴ κτυπεῖτ᾽· // ἀποπρὸ βᾶτ᾽ ἐκεῖσ᾽, ἀποπρό μοι κοίτας. // ἐν γὰρ δὴ τούτοις τὸ ‛σῖγα σῖγα λευκὸν’ ἐφ᾽ ἑνὸς φθόγγου μελῳδεῖται, καίτοι τῶν τριῶν λέξεων ἑκάστη βαρείας τε τάσεις ἔχει καὶ ὀξείας. καὶ τὸ ‛ἀρβύλης’ τῇ μέσῃ συλλαβῇ τὴν τρίτην ὁμότονον ἔχει, ἀμηχάνου ὄντος ἓν ὄνομα δύο λαβεῖν ὀξείας. καὶ τοῦ ‛τίθετε’ βαρυτέρα μὲν ἡ πρώτη γίνεται, δύο δ᾽ αἱ μετ᾽ αὐτὴν ὀξύτονοί τε καὶ ὁμόφωνοι. τοῦ τε ‛κτυπεῖτε’ ὁ περισπασμὸς ἠφάνισται· μιᾷ γὰρ αἱ δύο συλλαβαὶ λέγονται τάσει. καὶ τὸ ‛ἀποπρὸ βᾶτε’ οὐ λαμβάνει τὴν τῆς μέσης συλλαβῆς προσῳδίαν ὀξεῖαν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τὴν τετάρτην συλλαβὴν μεταβέβηκεν ἡ τάσις ἡ τῆς τρίτης.

  Be silent! Silent! Let the sandal’s tread // Be light, no jarring sound. // Depart ye hence afar, and from his bed withdraw. // In these lines the words σῖγα σῖγα λευκόν are sung on one note; and yet each of the three words has both low and high pitch. And the word ἀρβύλης has its third syllable sung in the same pitch as its middle syllable, although it is impossible for a single word to carry two acute accents. The first syllable of τίθετε is sung in a low pitch, while the two that follow are sung on the same high note. The circumflex accent on κτυπεῖτε has been eliminated, for the two syllables are uttered at the same pitch. And the phrase ἀποπρὸ βᾶτε does not receive the acute accent on the middle syllable, but the pitch of the third syllable has been transferred to the fourth. ― translation from: Stephen Usher, opere citato LCL 466 (1985), chapter xi, paragraph 4, page 81, lines 5–20