Rhutora: phulaka. en Epigrammasi: porphureon chaitas rhutora kekruphalon. kai authis: Archaianassan echô tên hetairên, has kai epirrutidôn ho glukus hezet' erôs.
[1] The headword is accusative singular of
r(u/twr, quoted from somewhere (probably, though not necessarily, the quotation which follows); cf.
rho 316. Related to
e)ru/w(B) in LSJ.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.207.2 (
Archias), quoted already at
kappa 1273.
[3] The abridged beginning of an epigram generally attributed to
Asclepiades:
Greek Anthology 7.217.1-2 =
Diogenes Laertius 3.31 =
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 13.589C (13.56 Kaibel); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 55) and (vol. II, 144-145). (For
Kolophon see generally
kappa 1956.) The adjective associated with 'passion' varies between these three versions. Also, the Suda's
e)pirruti/dwn should be
e)pi\ r(uti/dwn, i.e. two words, and the noun is not related to the present headword; cf.
rho 305,
rho 318. Gow and Page note (vol. I, 55) that
Athenaeus and then
Diogenes Laertius ascribed the epigram to
Plato (
pi 1707). If this were correct, then these lines might best be rendered as "Arkhaianassa the courtesan [from
Kolophon] is mine...", as if
Plato himself were speaking. However, Gow and Page are skeptical of ascribing the epigram to the Athenian philosopher (vol. II, 145). They observe that the style is that of
Asclepiades; that there is no record of
Plato having ever visited
Kolophon; that it is most likely to be a fictitious epitaph; and that, therefore,
e)/xw should be read "I hold", as if the gravestone was speaking (ibid.). Indeed, in
Greek Anthology 7.218 (Antipater of Sidon,
alpha 1219) the tomb similarly speaks of the courtesan it holds. Gow and Page conclude (ibid.) that "...the natural explanation of the facts is that the lines were originally written as a fictitious grave-inscription by
Asclepiades, with whose style they well agree, and were appropriated or misunderstood, and consequently tampered with, by those who ascribed them to
Plato or wished to make them seem his."
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)
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