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Headword:
*)anqe/mwn
Adler number: alpha,2492
Translated headword: flowers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] roses.
Aristophanes: "would that some Eros would take and unite you and me, just like the one in the picture", he says. And again: "who has a wreath of flowers".[1] That is, of roses. Zeuxis the painter drew in the temple of Aphrodite a most youthful Eros, encircled with roses.[2]
*)anqe/mwn: r(o/dwn. *)aristofa/nhs: pw=s a)\n e)me\ kai\ se/ tis e)/rws cunaga/goi labw\n, w(/sper o( gegramme/nos fhsi/. kai\ au)=qis: e)/xwn ste/fanon a)nqe/mwn. toute/sti r(o/dwn. *zeu=cis o( zwgra/fos e)n tw=| naw=| th=s *)afrodi/ths e)/grayen *)/erwta w(raio/taton, e)stemme/non r(o/dois.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is genitive plural.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 991-2 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2] For Zeuxis see again
zeta 38, and generally OCD(4) p.1591, s.v. s.v. 'Zeuxis(1)'.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 1 July 2000@16:30:46.
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