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Headword:
*mainali/a
e)/lafos
Adler number: mu,329
Translated headword: Mainalian hind
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested is] "of Mainalians", [meaning] of impulsive [sc. creatures.[1] In the Epigrams: "the heads of Mainalian hinds are being offered up".[2]
Greek Original:*mainali/a e)/lafos. kai\ *mainali/wn, o(rmhtikw=n. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)/gkeintai kefalai\ *mainali/wn e)la/fwn.
Notes:
The unglossed headword phrase, in the nominative singular, is perhaps quoted from somewhere but is more probably generated from the quotation given (where it is genitive plural).
[1] For Mt Mainalos see
mu 330. The mountain was sacred to Pan, and is associated with wild animals (bears: Apollonius of
Rhodes,
Argonautica 1.168; lynxes:
Callimachus,
Hymn to Artemis 89), but the Suda is probably guessing in associating a particular connotation of impulsiveness with the region.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.112.2 (
Perses), already at
alpha 4564. On this epigram, a dedication to Apollo, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 155-156) and (vol. II, 447-448). The fuller text of this extract at
alpha 4564 indicates that the deer heads had enormous horns. The deer must have been stags, not hinds, as the lexicographer has assumed with the feminine headword adjective. However, the feminine is often used generically of deer; see the discussion of antlered hinds at
delta 1088 note.
References:
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)
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Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 30 April 2009@07:45:56.
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