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Headword:
*mu/ca
Adler number: mu,1418
Translated headword: snot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the substance excreted of [= from] the head.[1] Hence also [sc. comes the term] mucwth/r ["nostril"], the part of the body. Muxa is also a word for the [wick] of a lamp.
In the Epigrams: "to the god of Kanopos[2] Kallistion, the wife of Kritias, dedicated me, a lamp rich in twenty wicks, [...]; when you see my lights you will say 'Hesperos, how you fell!'."[3]
Greek Original:*mu/ca: to\ peri/ttwma th=s kefalh=s. e)/nqen kai\ *mucwth/r, to\ me/ros tou= sw/matos. le/getai mu/ca kai\ to\ tou= lu/xnou. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: tw=| me *kanwpi/ta| *kalli/stion ei)/kosi mu/cais plou/sion, h( *kriti/ou, lu/xnion e)/qhke qew=|: e)s d' e)ma\ fe/ggh a)qrh/sas, fh/seis, *(/espere, pw=s e)/peses;
Notes:
[1] cf.
kappa 2120.
[2] Serapis. On the Egyptian city of Kanopos, see
kappa 319.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.148.1-4, attributed to
Callimachus (abridged); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 61) and (vol. II, 173-174). For Hesperos see
epsilon 3187.
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; imagery; medicine; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 August 2009@06:13:58.
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