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Headword:
*nebri/s
Adler number: nu,125
Translated headword: fawnskin
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[...] with her ivied fawnskin wrapped round her chest."[1]
Greek Original:*nebri/s. kisswth\n ste/rnois nebri/d' a)naptome/nh.
Notes:
See already
nu 124 (and under
nu 123).
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.172.4 (author unknown), a Bacchante's dedication to Dionysus; cf. Page (326-328) and further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 2220,
delta 1033,
eta 415,
lambda 665,
nu 125, and
pi 1316. The poet has taken some license here: Bacchantes dressed in fawnskins, wore crowns of ivy, and wrapped vines around their thyrsuses, but, as Page explains (327), "...there is no such thing as an 'ivied fawnskin'".
Reference:
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
Keywords: botany; clothing; medicine; poetry; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 August 2009@06:06:28.
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