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Headword:
*mai=a
Adler number: mu,313
Translated headword: mother, midwife
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] mamma, nurse.[1]
"And you, rock angled sheep-protecting Hermes [son] of Maia."[2] Meaning nurse, mother.
Greek Original:*mai=a: h( ma/mmh, h( trofo/s. kai\ su\ pe/tra glwxi\n mhlosso/e *maia/dos *(erma=. a)nti\ tou= trofou=, mhtro/s.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glosses in other lexica (e.g., more fully,
Hesychius mu64).
[2] A garbling of
Greek Anthology 6.334.3 (
Leonidas of
Tarentum), a dedication of cakes and wines to rustic gods; see the note at
gamma 304, with the genitive of
*maia/s rather than of the headword
*mai=a. Also, cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 108), (vol. II, 311-313), and another extract from this epigram at
pi 16.
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; mythology; poetry; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 April 2009@22:36:33.
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