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Headword:
*di/qurson
Adler number: delta,1033
Translated headword: double-thyrsus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Arrian [writes]: "the double-thyrsus, the spear and the anklet, with which she freely raved, whenever she went to Dionysus".
Greek Original:*di/qurson: *)arriano/s. to\ di/qurson, to\ logxwto\n kai\ to\ perisfu/rion, oi(=s a)ne/dhn e)ba/kxeuen, o(/t' e)s *dio/nuson e)foi/ta.
Notes:
Ineptly transferred from
alpha 2220, where material from Arrian precedes this quotation from the
Greek Anthology (6.172.1-4); cf.
lambda 665,
pi 1316. See Page (326-328) and further excerpts from this epigram, the dedication of a Bacchante to Dionysus, at
eta 415 and
nu 125. As Page notes (327), the headword's meaning is obscure; scholarly guesses as to what special kind of thyrsus (cf.
theta 613) is referred to here (e.g. "two thyrsi" and "doubly-pointed thyrsus") do not seem plausible.
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss FV.
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 June 2005@07:47:39.
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