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Headword:
Aiganea
Adler number: alphaiota,18
Translated headword: hunting-spear
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] javelin [made] entirely of iron.[1]
In the Epigrams: "Teucer the Arab dedicated [to Pan] the skin of a lion [...] and even his rustic hunting-spear."[2]
Greek Original:Aiganea: akontion holosidêron. en Epigrammasi: antheto derma leontos Teukros Araps kautên agrotin aiganean.
Notes:
The headword (which occurs in the accusative case in the quotation given) is the Attic form of an epic word,
ai)gane/h.
[1] For glossing as 'javelin' cf. (e.g.) the
scholia on
Homer,
Iliad 2.774,
Hesychius s.v.
ai)gane/as,
Etymologicum Magnum 28.30. For the dubious addition 'entirely of iron' (a single word in the Greek) cf.
zeta 97.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.57.3-4 (Paul the Silentiary); cf.
alpha 369 (end),
kappa 1144.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 September 2002@15:59:39.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 16 September 2002@03:05:49.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; another keyword; cosmetics) on 10 May 2012@07:54:11.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 22 November 2015@05:09:16.
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