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Headword:
*dike/raion
Adler number: delta,1088
Translated headword: two-horned
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] having two horns. In the Epigrams: "but having torn away from its forehead the skin and the two-horned tyne, he placed it in the temple of the huntress maiden."[1]
Greek Original:*dike/raion: du/o ke/rata e)/xousan. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: de/rma de\ kai\ dike/raion a)po\ sto/rqugga metw/pwn spasa/menos kou/ra| qe/to par' a)grw/tidi.
Notes:
The headword, (feminine) accusative singular of this adjective, is evidently extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.111.5-6 (Antipater of Sidon), a hunter dedicates to Artemis the hide and antlers of the deer he killed; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 26), (vol. II, 69-71), and further excerpts from this epigram at
omicron 950 and
rho 221. The 'huntress maiden' is Artemis (
alpha 4028). Although the first words of the epigram,
*ta\n e)/lafon identify the deer as a hind, this animal is almost certainly a Red Deer,
Cervis elaphus, the females of which species have no antlers. Paton (359), in fact, identifies the deer as a hind. But, as the LSJ points out s.v.
e)/lafos (web address 1), the noun with the feminine article, as here, is often used generically. The subject of
Greek Anthology 6.110 (
Leonidas of
Tarentum) is another antlered hind (cf.
phi 683), and Gow and Page describe both that deer and the one in this epigram as stags (vol. II, 393; vol. II, 69-70).
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)
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Translated by: Nicholas Wilshere on 8 November 2004@16:29:20.
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