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Headword:
*cai/nein
Adler number: xi,15
Translated headword: to flog
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] to beat. Also [sc. attested is the middle voice] cai/nesqai, [meaning] to suffer. So he is saying:[1] your hide will be beaten and broken; for tanners customarily beat hides with sticks, so that they become soft and easily absorb the chemical.
"He gave orders to flog the body with a great many lashes."[2]
In the Epigrams too: "much beaten [canqe/n] by the stormy sea."[3] The subject is a bone of a sea-scolopendra.[4]
Greek Original:*cai/nein: ai)tiatikh=|. to\ tu/ptein. kai\ cai/nesqai, to\ pa/sxein. fhsi\n ou)=n, h( bu/rsa sou tuptome/nh diafqarh/setai: oi( ga\r bursei=s ta\s bu/rsas cu/lois tu/ptein ei)w/qasin, i(/na a(palai\ geno/menai diala/boien eu)xerw=s tou= farma/kou. e)ke/leuse de\ cai/nein to\ sw=ma ma/stici pa/nu pollai=s. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: polla\ qalassai/h| canqe\n u(po\ spila/di. peri\ o)ste/ou skolope/ndrhs o( lo/gos.
Notes:
[1] That is,
Aristophanes,
Knights 369, where Kleon says to the sausage-seller "your hide will be tanned (
qraneu/setai)": web address 1. The
scholia there provide the material here. For this verb, see also
xi 16.
[2]
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 13.2.2.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.223.4 (generally attributed to Antipater of Sidon), a fisherman chances upon the tattered remains of a (mythical) scolopendra; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 28); (vol. II, 74-75); and this epigram's further excerpts at
alpha 1732,
gamma 456,
epsilon 3049,
omicron 521, and
pi 1426. On the reality of the scolopendra and its purported, enormous size in the epigram, cf.
omicron 521.
[4] cf. generally
sigma 646.
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)
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Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 16 February 2000@13:20:40.
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