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Headword:
*)alkh/entas
Adler number: alpha,1278
Translated headword: mighty
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning them who are] stout, strong.[1] "[O] Artemis who was assigned bows and mighty arrows."[2]
Greek Original:*)alkh/entas: eu)rw/stous, dunatou/s. *)/artemi to/ca laxou=sa kai\ a)lkh/entas o)i+stou/s.
Notes:
[1] The headword adjective is accusative plural, presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.277.1 (Damagetos), the Ptolemaic princess Arsinoe's dedication to Artemis; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 76-77), (vol. II, 224), and another extract from this epigram at
pi 1787. The adjective
a)lkh/eis is attested in the
Homeric Hymns,
Pindar, and late epic. Gow and Page identify (ibid.) the princess as
Ptolemy Euergetes's daughter, who had been present with her brother at the battle of Raphia (Barrington Atlas map 70 grid E3) in 217 BCE; cf.
Polybius 5.79-87 (web address 1).
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: Jennifer Benedict on 1 June 2000@12:59:45.
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