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Headword:
*cou/qh
Adler number: xi,79
Translated headword: vibrant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] most/very comely.[1]
"Striking a sweet tune from vibrant wings, you [cricket] will not delight me as I recline beneath the shading foliage."[2]
Greek Original:*cou/qh: eu)morfota/th. ou)de/ me keklime/non skierh\n u(po\ fulla/da te/ryeis, couqw=n e)k pteru/gwn h(du\ kre/kousa me/los.
Notes:
[1] Feminine (nominative and) vocative singular of this elusive adjective (for which see also
xi 80,
xi 81). From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 676, where it appears (of Prokne the Nightingale): text at web address 1.
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.192.3 (Mnasalces). The first couplet quoted at
lambda 509. On this epigram, addressed to a cricket that has died, see also Gow and Page (vol. I, 143) and (vol. II, 408).
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)
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; meter and music; mythology; poetry; women; zoology
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 18 February 2000@08:22:24.
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