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Headword:
*smh/nh
Adler number: sigma,734
Translated headword: hives
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] masses of bees.[1] "Having invaded the Colchians, there was nothing [else] that they marveled at. But the hives there were plentiful, and those soldiers who ate from the honeycombs all started losing their wits and vomiting and many were bedridden, and on the next day they recovered as from a dose of poison."[2]
"Having cut me from the hive as a sweet harvest of discordant things, the aged beekeeper Cleiton made a libation."[3]
Greek Original:*smh/nh: ta\ tw=n melissw=n plh/qh. e)s *ko/lxous e)mbalo/ntes ou)de\n o(/ ti kai\ e)qau/masan. ta\ de\ smh/nh polla\ h)=n au)to/qi, kai\ tw=n khri/wn o(/soi e)/fagon tw=n stratiwtw=n, pa/ntes a)/frone/s te e)ge/nonto kai\ h)/moun kai\ e)/keinto polloi\ kai\ th=| u(sterai/a| a)ni/stanto w(/sper e)k farmakoposi/as. smh/neos e)/k me tamw\n glukero\n qe/ros a)ntinomai/wn ghraio\s *kleitw=n spei=se melissopo/nos.
Notes:
The headword is plural, nominative or accusative, of the neuter noun
smh=nos; nominative if drawn from the quotation of
Xenophon provided. For a separate gloss of the singular see
sigma 735.
[1] For the sources of this gloss see the references at
sigma 735.
[2] An approximation of
Xenophon,
Anabasis 4.8.19-21. The toxicity of Colchian honey is also referred to by other sources, e.g.
Strabo 12.3.8, and
Pliny NH 21.45 (who identifies the nectar of the rhododendron as the culprit). On the toxicity of honey made from the nectar of rhododendrons see the Wikipedia entry at web address 1.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.239.1-2 (
Apollonides), where the poetic genitive singular of the headword
smh/neos appears. In place of the Suda's
hapax a)ntinomai/wn ('discordant'(?)), Beckby's text of the
Anthology reads
a)nti\ nomai/wn ('instead of usual things', or 'instead of pastoral things'). Find further extracts from this epigram at
theta 6,
theta 269, and
tau 500.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 8 March 2014@10:18:54.
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