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Headword:
*magh=a
Adler number: mu,11
Translated headword: wiper
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] that which wipes [something] off.[1] "[...] and the wiper sponge lying under a sturdy knife."[2]
Greek Original:*magh=a: to\n a)poma/ssonta. to/n te magh=a spo/ggon u(po\ stibara=| keklime/non kopi/di.
Notes:
[1] The headword is poetic accusative singular of
mageu/s, presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.306.5-6 (Ariston): Spinther the cook dedicates the tools of his trade to Hermes; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (42-43) and vol. II (110-111). The quotation at
alpha 4064 immediately precedes this passage, and one at
alpha 1146 immediately follows it. See further extracts from this epigram at
beta 34,
theta 539,
pi 3007,
tau 73,
tau 74,
tau 799,
chi 620, and
omega 294. Gow and Page (vol. I, 42) note that the
Anthologia Palatina reads the headword as
magei=a while the
Anthologia Planudea transmits
magh=an.
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; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 May 2008@16:41:18.
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