Meaning of scaena | Babel Free

Definitions

1. stage
   declension-1, feminine
2. scene
   declension-1, feminine
3. theatre
   declension-1, feminine
4. natural scenery, background, backdrop
   declension-1, feminine
5. publicity, the public eye
   declension-1, feminine
6. euphemism for death with dēcēdo
   declension-1, feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“… aut Agamemnonius scēnīs agitātus Orestēs”

… or [like] Agamemnon’s [son] Orestes, tormented onstage [by his dead] mother [who is] armed with torches and black snakes, …. (A poetic plural reference to theatrical performances of the tragedy.)

““Obscaenum” dictum ab “scaena”; eam, ut Graeci, Accius scribit “scena”.”

Obscaenum ‘foul’ is said from scaena ‘stage’; this word Accius writes scena, like the Greeks.

“… tum silvīs scēna coruscīs”

Further on [there is] a backdrop with waving woods above; a dark forest overhanging and trembling with shade.

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