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Headword:
*)ara/xneion
nh=ma
Adler number: alpha,3749
Translated headword: spidery web
Vetting Status: high
Translation: ['Spidery web'] and 'spidery thread': the thinnest.
In the Epigrams: "spindle, oft-whirling servant of a spidery thread."[1]
Greek Original:*)ara/xneion nh=ma kai\ *)araxnai=os mi/tos, o( lepto/tatos. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)raxnai/oio mi/tou poludine/a la/trin a)/trakton.
Notes:
The second of these twin headword phrases is illustrated by the quotation given; the first by Hesiod,
Works and Days 777 (web address 1).
cf. generally
alpha 3750.
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.39.3-4 (
Archias), three sisters dedicate their spinning and weaving instruments to Athena; again, more fully, at
alpha 4378 and
mu 1135. See Gow and Page (vol. I, 404-405); (vol. II, 437); and further extracts from this epigram at
mu 473,
pi 2005,
tau 38, and
chi 208.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; imagery; poetry; religion; science and technology; trade and manufacture; women; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 June 2001@23:08:24.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (rearranged headword and translation; modified notes; added keywords; cosmetics) on 29 June 2001@04:11:58.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword) on 23 August 2002@07:40:53.
David Whitehead (internal rearrangement; added primary note) on 10 April 2012@06:07:29.
David Whitehead on 7 July 2015@03:03:40.
Ronald Allen (added link primary note; expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 28 October 2020@16:33:00.
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