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Headword:
Kekonimenos
Adler number: kappa,1254
Translated headword: dust-covered
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone who is] in great haste, and (so to speak) filled with dust.[1] "Whoever does not come first altogether dust-covered with darkness ...". Meaning when it is still in the darkness [of morning].[2]
And elsewhere: "but dust-covered from iron war".[3]
"For the three holy youths said that in preference to such a diet they were dusted with [a diet of] pulse."[4] Meaning accustomed [to it]. But kekoni=sqai also means to be rolled [in]."[5]
Greek Original:Kekonimenos: spoudazôn panu, kai schedon koneôs peplêrômenos. hos an mê prôta panu tou knephous hêkêi kekonimenos. anti tou eti tou knephous ontos. kai authis: alla sidêreiou kekonimenê ek polemoio. pros gar tên toiautên diaitan elegon hoi hagioi treis paides kekonisthai tên tôn ospriôn. anti tou eneithizesthai. sêmainei de to kekonisthai kai anti tou kuliesthai.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the first quotation given, is the perfect middle/passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb
koni/w.
[1] cf.
kappa 1255.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 289-291, with scholion; cf.
pi 2940.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.124.3 (
Hegesippus), the dedication of a shield to Athena; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (104) and vol. II (299); cf. further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 656,
alpha 1281, and
tau 594. The allusion in this excerpt is to the dedicated shield. Gow and Page read (vol. I, 104)
polla\ (thus,
often dust-covered) for
a)lla\ and the Doric form
kekonime/na instead of the Suda's transmitted Attic/Ionic dialect form
kekonime/nh.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable, though the 'three holy youths' (from the Book of
Daniel) are copiously mentioned in Christian literature; in the Suda see
beta 11,
pi 3195,
pi 3223,
psi 170. For
o)/sprion, see
omicron 706.
[5] cf.
kappa 2041.
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)
Keywords: Christianity; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; military affairs; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 October 2008@01:58:19.
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