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Headword:
*mukh/santos
Adler number: mu,1394
Translated headword: after it had roared, when it had roared
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] after/when it had sounded.
Homer [writes]: "self-moving roared the gates of heaven, which the Hours had in their keeping".[1] And in the
Epigrams: "after it [sc. a drum] had roared heavily, the boldest of animals [i.e. the lion] ran away faster than a deer".[2]
*mukh/santos: h)xh/santos. *(/omhros: au)to/matai de\ pu/lai mu/kon ou)ranou=, a(\s e)/xon *(=wrai. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: ou(= baru\ mukh/santos, o( qarsalew/teros a)/llwn tetrapo/dwn e)la/fwn e)/dramen o)cu/teron.
Notes:
The headword is the aorist active participle, masculine or neuter genitive singular, of the (usually middle) verb
muka/omai; presumably from the
second quotation given here. For this verb see also
mu 1399.
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 5.749 = 8.393 (web addresses 1 and 2), with the epic aorist active
mu/kon (third person plural, unaugmented).
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.220.11-12 (Dioskorides/
Dioscorides), a
Gallus is able to drive away a threatening lion by beating his timbrel; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 85-86); (vol. II, 245-246); and further extracts from this epigram at
epsilon 4078,
theta 198,
lambda 74,
omicron 374,
tau 1167, and
theta 6. The Galli (
gamma 41 and
gamma 42) were eunuch priests devoted to the Phrygian goddess Kybele (
kappa 2586).
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)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; gender and sexuality; imagery; meter and music; mythology; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 23 February 2009@12:54:14.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (cosmetics, keywords, status) on 23 February 2009@23:30:56.
Catharine Roth (expanded notes, added keyword) on 24 February 2009@00:32:06.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 24 February 2009@03:16:25.
Catharine Roth (tweaked notes, upgraded links) on 30 July 2009@16:27:18.
David Whitehead on 29 May 2013@03:51:50.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 28 September 2020@01:06:27.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 23 November 2021@14:36:37.
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