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Headword:
Petalois
Adler number: pi,1385
Translated headword: with leaves, with flowers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [peta/lois means the same as] fu/llois.[1]
And in the Epigrams pe/talon [means] a felt [hat] compressed out of wool. "For you, Hermes, Kalliteles hung up his hat felted from the well-carded fleece of a lamb."[2]
Greek Original:Petalois: phullois. kai en Epigrammasi petalon, pilêma ex eriou pilêthen. soi ton pilêthenta di' euxantou trichos amnou, Herma, Kallitelês ekremasen petalon.
Notes:
[1] The headword is dative plural of
pe/talon (cf.
pi 1386,
pi 1394). Same glossing in
Photius and other lexica, and in a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 2.312 (where it occurs).
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.282.1-2 (
Theodorus); again at
pi 1596. On this epigram, a young man's dedication to Hermes upon completion of ephebic (cf.
epsilon 3890) training, see Gow and Page, vol. I (196), vol. II (551-552), and further excerpts at
pi 1361 and
sigma 1719.
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: botany; clothing; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 January 2012@23:18:36.
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