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Headword:
*pe/za
Adler number: pi,909
Translated headword: footing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the extremity, or the edge of a tunic, which we [sc. nowadays] call w)/|an ["sheepskin", "fringe"]. For formerly they used to stitch on the skin of sheep in order to prevent chafing.[1]
"Footing" is also the foot.[2] Also [sc. attested is the adjective] a)rguro/peza ["silver-footinged"], [meaning] she having white feet.[3]
Also in the Epigrams: "having firmly rested it upon the footing of that one, and on earth it heeds not the breeze."[4]
Greek Original:*pe/za: to\ a)/kron, h)\ to\ a)polh=gon tou= xitw=nos, o(\ h(mei=s w)/|an le/gomen. pro/teron ga\r u(pe\r tou= mh\ tri/besqai de/rma proba/twn prose/rrapton. *pe/za kai\ o( pou=s. kai\ *)arguro/peza, h( leukou\s po/das e)/xousa. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: e)/mpedon e)s kei/nou pe/zan e)reisa/menos au)/rhs ou)k a)le/gousan e)pi\ xqono/s.
Notes:
See also
pi 910
[1] =
Photius pi520 Theodoridis; cf.
Synagoge, where the wording is slightly different. Perhaps originally from commentary on
Homer,
Iliad 11.629 or 24.272, where the headword or a compound thereof is used in a context where the obvious connection with the notion of 'foot' is not deemed appropriate; cf. also
scholia to
Pindar,
Olympian 6.156e.
[2] This and the next sentence are probably originally from commentary on
Homer, where the term
a)rguro/peza ("silver-footinged") is used several times (e.g.
Iliad 1.538), always as an epithet of the goddess Thetis; cf. Apollonius,
Homeric Lexicon 41-2; ps.-Herodian,
Epimerismi 105.
[3] cf. Apollonius,
Homeric Lexicon 41;
Apion,
Glossae Homericae 223 (Ludwich); see n. 2, and
alpha 3797.
[4] A garbled version of
Greek Anthology 6.69.2-3 (Macedonius the Consul). The original has
e)s nhou= pe/zan ("upon the footing of the temple") rather than
e)s kei/nou pe/zan ("upon the footing of that one"). On this epigram, in which an old sailor fixes his boat as a dedication at the base of Poseidon's temple, see Madden (179-180).
A. Ludwich (1917) "Über die homerischen Glossen Apions," Philologus 74: 209‑247
J.A. Madden, Macedonius Consul: The Epigrams, (Hildesheim 1995)
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Translated by: William Hutton on 15 September 2011@15:14:07.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (cosmetics as requested by WH, status) on 16 September 2011@01:06:39.
Catharine Roth (added italics) on 16 September 2011@01:11:01.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 September 2011@04:38:00.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 19 September 2013@04:36:33.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4, added to bibliography) on 16 August 2023@10:54:37.
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