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Headword: *xroo/s
Adler number: chi,536
Translated headword: of skin
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] of a body.[1]
And Homer [writes]: "and nothing at all of his skin showed." *xro/os is different, [when] meaning xrw/s [in the nominative]. Hence it has a low accent [on the last syllable]. But ei)/sato ["showed"] [means] appeared.[2]
"Wash your skin clean in Inopos, and go into the house."[3]
Greek Original:
*xroo/s: sw/matos. kai\ *(/omhros: a)ll' ou)/ph xroo\s ei)/sato. dih/|rhtai o( xro/os, a)nti\ tou= o( xrw/s. dio\ kai\ baru/netai. to\ de\ ei)/sato, e)fa/nh. lou=sai d' *)inwpw=| kaqaro\n xro/a, ba=qi d' e)s oi)/kous.
Notes:
[1] The headword is epic genitive of xrw/s, possibly extracted from the first quotation given but more probably from another Homeric instance, Iliad 4.130; see the scholia there. For the glossing (also in other lexica) cf. chi 546, chi 550.
[2] Homer, Iliad 13.191 (web address 1), with scholion; see also epsiloniota 235. LSJ do not mention an disyllabic nominative xro/os; oblique case forms with the stem xro- occur in epic and Attic tragedy.
[3] Greek Anthology 6.273.3 (attributed to Nossis), with the epic accusative xro/a; already at iota 383. On this epigram, a prayer to Artemis to abandon the hunt and assist Alcetis in childbirth, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 154) and (vol. II, 443). Gow and Page include this epigram among those ascribed to Nossis, but they acknowledge (ibid.) that the heading w(s *nossi/dos in the Anthologia Palatina does cast some doubt on the attribution. Indeed, for Paton (444-445) the poem's author is "Like Nossis". The Inopos (iota 383) was a small stream on the Aegean island of Delos; cf. delta 407 and delta 408.
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)
W.R. Paton, trans., The Greek Anthology: Books I-VI, (Cambridge, MA 1993)
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; medicine; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 June 2007@01:59:43.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another x-ref and keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 4 June 2007@03:44:32.
David Whitehead (tweaked and expanded n.1) on 13 November 2013@09:29:10.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 13 November 2013@23:42:34.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note, added a keyword) on 20 January 2019@02:07:26.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 20 January 2022@13:48:34.
Ronald Allen (further expanded n.3, added to bibliography) on 21 January 2022@16:24:05.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 21 January 2022@22:43:30.

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