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Headword:
*sigu/nh
Adler number: sigma,370
Translated headword: spear
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested is the accusative plural] sigu/nnous, [meaning] spears.[1]
[Used] among Macedonians. In the Epigrams: "[Harpalion] dedicated to Herakles me, this spear from long ago."[2]
And elsewhere: "[I dedicate] the dog, the pouch, and the crook-toothed spear."[3]
Greek Original:*sigu/nh. kai\ *sigu/nnous, ta\ do/rata. para\ *makedo/sin. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: to/nde par' *(hraklei= qh=ke/ me to\n sigu/nhn e)k pollou= pleiw=nos. kai\ a)llaxou=: to\n ku/na ta\n ph/ran te kai\ a)gkulo/donta si/gunon.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and in a scholion on
Plato,
Erastai [
Lovers] 135E. According to LSJ s.v., the nominative is
sigu/nhs or
si/gunos, often written (as in the accusative plural transmitted here) with double nu.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.93.2-3 (ascribed to Antipater of Sidon) with scholion, quoted already at
pi 1736; the correct reading may be
sibu/nhn "hunting spear" (cf.
sigma 363). On this epigram, a retiring hunter's dedication, see Gow and Page vol. I (32-33) and vol. II (45-46). As Gow and Page note (vol. I, 32), the
Anthologia Palatina (AP) attributes this epigram to Antipater of Sidon. However, because it appears in sequence within the
Garland of Philip, the epigram must in fact be credited to Antipater of Thessalonica; cf. vol. II (21). Indeed, the AP scribe designated C (
the Corrector) seems to have caught the mistake in attribution and properly credits the later Antipater, the Thessalonican (vol. I, 32; vol. II, 45).
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.176.1 (Macedonius the Consul). See another quote from this epigram at
alpha 917.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 September 2012@01:24:26.
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