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Headword:
Rhaistêr
Adler number: rho,81
Translated headword: hammer
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a mallet.[1] [So called] from the [verb]
r(w=, [meaning] I destroy.[2] The one destroying things set under it.
In the
Epigrams: "out of the fire the hammer and the tongs and the fire-tongs are dedicated to Hephaestus".[3] And elsewhere: "not even if you raise me with a hammer as a golden [sc. statue of]
Homer in Zeus’ flaming lightnings".[4]
Greek Original:Rhaistêr: hê sphura. para to rhô, to phtheirô. hê phtheirousa ta entithemena. en Epigrammasin: ek puros ho rhaistêr kai ho karkinos hê te puragrê ankeinth' Hêphaistôi. kai authis: oud' ei me chruseion apo rhaistêros Homêron stêsête phlogeais en Dios asteropais.
Notes:
cf. entries in Orion [
Author,
Myth], ps-
Zonaras,
Hesychius,
Etymologicum Magnum and
Etymologicum Gudianum.
[1] cf.
sigma 1761.
[2] cf.
rho 79. On hypothetical monosyllabic verbs, see
phi 394.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.117.1-2 (attributed to
Pancrates), the blacksmith
Polycrates dedicates his tools to Hephaestus; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 155), and (vol. II, 445), and further excerpts from this epigram at
alpha 246 and
omicron 92.
[4]
Greek Anthology 7.5.1-2 (attributed by some to
Alcaeus),
Homer affirms that he is a citizen of
Chios, not of
Salamis (on
Cyprus, Barrington Atlas map 72 grid D2); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 10), (vol. II, 26-27), and
omicron 251. Gow and Page note that attributions to
Alcaeus were asserted in a lemma by the
Anthologia Palatina scribe designated J (vol. I, 10). Although they find the remark dubious (vol. II, 26), Gow and Page nevertheless include the epigram as the last in the
Alcaeus series (vol. I, 3-10).
Chios (Barrington Atlas map 56 grid C5; see OCD(4) s.v.) is the traditional home of the Homeridae (cf.
omicron 248 and OCD(4) s.v.), and by most accounts this
polis can legitimately claim
Homer as its citizen; cf. Gow and Page (vol. II, 27).
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1965)
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