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Headword: *boufa/gos
Adler number: beta,473
Translated headword: ox-devouring
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

"He just brushed the rain from his hair, but on his track an ox-devouring lion came into the hollow path."[1]

Greek Original:

*boufa/gos: u(eto\n a)/rti ko/mhs a)pemo/rcato, tou= de\ kat' i)/xnos boufa/gos ei)s koi/lhn a)trapo\n i(=kto le/wn.

Notes:

The unglossed headword is extracted from the quotation.
[1] Greek Anthology, 6.217.3-4 (attributed to Simonides), quoted from alpha 3019. On this epigram, wherein a Gallus (cf. gamma 41, gamma 42) beats his timbrel to frighten away a lion, see Gow and Page vol. I (180); vol. II (517-518); and further extracts at epsilon 1196, eta 482, kappa 1050, lambda 147, and omicron 541. The Galli were eunuch priests of Kybele (kappa 2586).

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)

Keywords: food; gender and sexuality; meter and music; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 June 2002@13:08:45.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 9 June 2002@07:21:46.
David Whitehead on 13 June 2011@03:19:16.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 4 July 2012@21:27:42.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 4 July 2012@21:30:39.
David Whitehead on 23 September 2015@08:01:32.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 8 February 2019@18:40:55.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 2 May 2022@11:07:03.

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