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Headword:
*lw/pion
Adler number: lambda,733
Translated headword: little cloak
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a cheap, shabby garment.
"Master, [
Diogenes] vowed to hang this little cloak on the holy temple gateway as an offering from the stormy sea-voyage."[1]
*lw/pion: to\ eu)tele\s lai=fos. de/spota, xeimeri/hs a)/nqema nautili/hs a)rth/sein a(gi/ois to/de lw/pion e)n propulai/ois eu)/cato.
Notes:
The headword is the diminutive of
lw/ph/
lw=pos (
lambda 731,
lambda 735).
[1] An approximation of
Greek Anthology 6.245.3-5 (
Diodorus); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 234-235; and vol. II, 267-268) and further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 664,
alpha 1108,
beta 390, and
lambda 183. The 'master' addressed is one of the Kabeiroi (
kappa 6). Regarding the content of the quotation, cf. Horace,
Odes 1.5 (web address 1).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; clothing; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; poetry; religion
Translated by: Richard Rodriguez on 29 June 2009@23:08:49.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 29 June 2009@23:21:55.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note, set status) on 30 June 2009@01:35:57.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 June 2009@03:47:12.
David Whitehead on 22 April 2013@07:39:57.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 2 December 2018@23:57:04.
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