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Headword:
Dnopheron
Adler number: delta,1316
Translated headword: dark, murky
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] black, shadowy.[1]
"He lamented pouring dark dust on his head with his man-slaying hands."[2]
Greek Original:Dnopheron: melan, skoteinon. ôlophurato chersin amêsas androphonois dnopheran kratos huperthe konin.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 9.15 and 16.4, where the neuter nominative/accusative singular headword occurs (of water).
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.241.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon); an elegy on a young Ptolemaic prince who perished in an epidemic; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 20), (vol. II, 54-5), and
alpha 1578 and
tau 573, with different readings. See additional extracts from this epigram at
delta 102,
delta 1316,
epsilon 9,
theta 525, and
tau 454. The lamentation ritual of the prince's tutor here resembles that of Achilles, who poured dark dust over his head after the death of Patroclus; cf.
Iliad 18.23 (web address 1) and Gow and Page (vol. II, 55). On the prince's identity see
alpha 1578 notes.
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)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 March 2005@00:16:13.
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