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Headword:
*)/afatoi
Adler number: alpha,4564
Translated headword: immense, monstrous
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones that are] great or astonishing. In the Epigrams: "three immense heads of Mainadian deer with blazing horns are laid up for you, Apollo."[1]
Greek Original:*)/afatoi: mega/lai h)\ kataplhktikai/. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: trei=s a)/fatoi kera/essin u(p' ai)qou/sais toi\, *)/apollon, a)/gkeintai kefalai\ *mainadi/wn e)la/fwn.
Notes:
The headword, nominative plural of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation given (on which see the next note).
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.112.1-2 (
Perses), where the adjective is Mainalian (i.e. from Mt. Mainalos in Arkadia); cf.
mu 329. On this epigram, the dedication of antlers at a temple of Apollo, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 155-156) and (vol. II, 447-448). Gow and Page note (ibid.) that there is no evidence that the dedication was made at
Delphi.
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 5 December 2001@10:53:48.
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