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Headword:
*lei=knon
Adler number: lambda,360
Translated headword: winnowing-basket
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A Bacchic adornment.[1] "Or a winnowing-basket often borne atop his headbanded hair". In the Epigrams.[2]
Greek Original:*lei=knon: ko/smos *bakxiko/s. h)de\ forhqe\n polla/ki mitrode/tou lei=knon u(/perqe ko/mhs. e)n *)epigra/mmasi.
Notes:
For this headword see again
lambda 361.
[1] In the sense that a
l(e)iknon was "sacred to Dionysus, and carried on the head at his festivals" (LSJ s.v.). (In fact the epigram cited here is the totality of the evidence for this.)
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.165.5-6 (
Phalaecus). Find further extracts from this epigram, a dedication to Dionysus, at
alpha 1721,
alpha 4681,
beta 140,
beta 548,
theta 379,
theta 613,
iota 72,
kappa 2115,
kappa 2279,
rho 223, and
sigma 1193. On the epigram's attribution, see
alpha 1721 note.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 March 2009@07:03:30.
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