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Headword:
*(rwpika/
Adler number: rho,259
Translated headword: coarsely
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "His mother, poor as she is, gives [ = dedicates] the living Mikythos to Bacchus, having painted [him] coarsely."
Greek Original:*(rwpika/: a( ma/thr zwo\n to\n *mi/kuqon, oi(=a penixra/, *ba/kxw| dwrei=tai, r(wpika\ grayame/na.
Notes:
Greek Anthology 6.355.1-2 (
Leonidas of
Tarentum), a woman dedicates a portrait of her son, and concomitantly Mikythos himself, to Dionysus; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 120) and (vol. II, 348-349). Although apparently not an accomplished artist, the mother might well be a Bacchant or indeed a priestess of Dionysus, as Gow and Page observe (vol. II, 348).
For the headword adjective, here used in the neuter plural as an adverb, see also
rho 260.
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: art history; children; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; imagery; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 October 2010@23:43:33.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (supplied headword; tweaked tr; expanded note; more keywords) on 31 October 2010@04:44:40.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 25 August 2011@05:03:45.
Ronald Allen (expanded note, added bibliography, added keyword) on 5 April 2021@17:37:30.
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