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Headword:
Tumpanos
Adler number: tau,1167
Translated headword: kettledrum
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the masculine.[1]
"At the breath of some divinity he laid his hands on a sounding kettledrum."[2]
Greek Original:Tumpanos: arsenikôs. kai tinos aurêi daimonos es ton heon tumpanon hêke cheras.
Notes:
[1] Usually neuter,
tu/mpanon (or
tu/panon): cf.
tau 1164,
tau 1166,
tau 1174.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.220.9-10 (Dioskorides/
Dioscorides), which has
tono/en "sounding," as translated here, not the Suda's
to\n e(o\n "his own". In this epigram a
Gallus drives away a threatening lion by beating his kettledrum; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 85-86); (vol. II, 245-246); and further excerpts from this epigram at
epsilon 4078,
theta 198,
lambda 74,
mu 1394,
omicron 374, and
theta 6. The Galli (
gamma 41 and
gamma 42) were eunuch priests devoted to 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)
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; meter and music; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 February 2014@01:49:01.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 2 February 2014@04:22:17.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 29 November 2021@12:51:24.
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