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Headword: *proi/kios
Adler number: pi,2981
Translated headword: free, gratuitous
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] without pay.[1] "The free singer for wayfaring men." The cicada says [this] in the Epigrams.[2]
Greek Original:
*proi/kios: a)/neu misqou=. proi/kios a)nqrw/poisi keleuqh/th|sin a)oido/s. o( te/ttic fhsi\n e)n *)epigra/mmasi.
Notes:
[1] cf. pi 2979, pi 2983.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.120.3 (Leonidas of Tarentum), on a cicada resting on Athena's spear, also at kappa 1294; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 136); (vol. II, 389); and further extracts from this epigram at epsilon 3082, epsilon 3652, zeta 8, and omega 107.
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)
Keywords: definition; economics; imagery; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 December 2006@00:52:06.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 19 December 2006@03:18:34.
David Whitehead on 22 October 2013@06:42:53.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 21 May 2021@19:10:24.
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