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Headword:
Êrasson
Adler number: eta,482
Translated headword: they were smiting, they were assailing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they were striking, they were hitting, they were slandering.[1] "Having recognized [him] they stood around [him], then were smiting him with reproaches on one side and the other." Meaning all of them unanimously.[2]
And elsewhere: "but he held a large drum in his flying hand, he struck [it], and he made the whole cave echo with its clanging."[3]
Greek Original:Êrasson: ekrouon, eplêtton, eblasphêmoun. mathontes amphestêsan, eit' oneidesin êrasson enthen kanthen. anti tou pantes homophronôs. kai authis: autar ho peptamenêi mega tumpanon escheto cheiri, êraxen, kanachêi d' iachen antron hapasan.
Notes:
[1] Imperfect of
a)ra/ssw, third person plural, evidently extracted from the quotation which immediately follows; cf.
alpha 3742,
alpha 3745.
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 724-5 (web address 1), with scholion.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.217.5-6 (attributed to
Simonides), with
o(\ sxe/qe rather than
e)/sxeto and
a(/pan to agree with
a)/ntron. On this epigram, wherein a
Gallus (cf.
gamma 41,
gamma 42) beats his drum so as to drive away a lion, see also Gow and Page vol. I (180); vol. II (517-518); and further extracts at
alpha 3019,
beta 473,
epsilon 1196,
lambda 147, and
omicron 541. The Galli were eunuch priests of the Phrygian goddess Kybele (
kappa 2586).
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: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; meter and music; poetry; religion; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 November 2006@01:02:21.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 22 November 2006@03:03:56.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 19 December 2012@05:03:23.
Catharine Roth (fixed link) on 23 December 2012@01:04:38.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 15 September 2018@01:50:57.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 12 May 2022@21:53:15.
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