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Headword:
Ôidon
Adler number: omega,28
Translated headword: singer
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] musician, harpist.[1] In the Epigrams: "having set up a bronze singer over a box-lyre."[2]
Greek Original:Ôidon: ôidikon, psaltên. en Epigrammasi: chalkeon hidrusas ôidon huper kitharas.
Notes:
[1] The headword (contracted from
a)oido/s: cf.
alpha 4402, and LSJ entry at web address 1) is in the accusative case, extracted from the quotation given.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.54.12 (Paulus Silentiarius), of a cicada. On the harp and "box-lyre", kithara, consult M.L. West,
Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) chap.3. Find further excerpts from this epigram, in which the cicada alights upon a lyre and continues the note from a broken string, at
alpha 87,
alpha 2994,
kappa 2368,
lambda 73,
pi 670, and
tau 877.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; meter and music; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Timothy McGovern on 10 April 2000@01:08:14.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords) on 11 May 2001@06:24:31.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, cross-reference) on 5 September 2007@22:43:23.
David Whitehead on 30 October 2013@10:24:10.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added cross-references) on 26 July 2023@23:50:34.
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