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Headword:
Tenontas
Adler number: tau,316
Translated headword: tendons
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] necks, the stretched-out sinews.[1]
"A bull's deep sinew."[2]
"But the bull having been struck and cut through the tendons was led quietly and decently."[3]
And elsewhere: "in a frenzy [the lion] twisted his whirling mane about his neck."[4]
Greek Original:Tenontas: trachêlous, ta diatetamena neura. taurou bathutenonta. ho de tauros plêgeis kai diakopeis tous tenontas hêsuchêi kai kosmiôs katênechthê. kai authis: ek de tenontôn enthous rhombêtên estrophalixe phobên.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon and
Hesychius (tau487); references at
Photius tau158 Theodoridis. See also several Homeric
scholia, including those on
Iliad 20.478, where the nominative plural
te/nontes occurs. The lexicographers' accusative plural
te/nontas must be quoted from somewhere else; probably
Odyssey 3.449.
[2] A faulty excerpt from
Greek Anthology 6.256.1 (
Zonas or Antipater), a tribute to a robust, champion boxer; it should read
tau/rou baqu\n te/nonta (cf.
alpha 4390, but here translated as given in this entry). On the epigram's attribution, see
alpha 4390 note.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable, though Favuzzi marshals arguments to show that both this and a quotation given under
pi 2764 (q.v.) concern Theseus, and may stem from
Nicolaus of Damascus.
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.218.7-8 (
Alcaeus), the dedication of a eunuch priest of Cybele (Kybele, a Phrygian goddess, cf.
kappa 2586) who escaped from a lion by beating his timbrels; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (9) and vol. II (24-26) and further excerpts from this epigram at
alpha 388,
gamma 158,
theta 526,
pi 952,
pi 2954, and
omega 89.
References:
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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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 December 2013@22:51:22.
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