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Headword:
*)/akitin
Adler number: alpha,889
Translated headword: reed, made of reed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the Epigrams: "and he spurned a reed comb."[1]
Greek Original:*)/akitin: e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kai\ yh/ktran a)/kitin a)pe/ptusen.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is accusative singular.
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.307.3 (
Phanias), on the barber Eugathes who forsakes his trade for philosophy, but returns to it when facing starvation. The excerpt is quoted from
phi 120; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (163-164), vol. II (473-475), and further extracts from this epigram at
sigma 1348 and
psi 66. The text of the
Anthology gives
donaki=tin for the Suda's consistent
a)/kitin; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (164).
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: daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; philosophy; poetry; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 27 April 2001@15:07:32.
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