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Headword:
*xu/tron
Adler number: chi,620
Translated headword: pot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] mound.[1] And a kind of kiss.[2]
And in the Epigrams: "a pot and this meat-hook".[3]
Greek Original:*xu/tron: xw=ma. kai\ filh/matos ei)=dos. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: xu/tron toi tau/thn te kreagri/da.
Notes:
[1] This is not an attested meaning of the headword
xu/tron; Kuster referred it rather to
chi 609.
[2] 'A kiss in which one held the other by the ears as by handles' (LSJ); cf.
Pollux 10.100.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.306.1 (Ariston), a list of kitchen equipment dedicated to Hermes by Spinther the cook upon his manumission; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (42-43); vol. II (110-111); and further extracts at
alpha 1146,
alpha 4064,
beta 34,
mu 11,
pi 3007,
tau 73,
tau 74,
tau 799, and
omega 294. For 'meat-hook' cf. the slightly different word in another epigram, quoted at
kappa 2361.
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: daily life; definition; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; imagery; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 April 2008@11:00:55.
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