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Headword:
Athurma
Adler number: alpha,767
Translated headword: plaything
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A children's toy.[1]
Josephus [writes]: "who was a plaything of the king and was exhibited to be teased and laughed at during the drinking sessions".[2]
And elsewhere: "it is not the part of men to linger with playthings of children".[3]
Also in the
Epigrams: "they stripped it and hung it up by the road as a plaything for Pan".[4] Meaning as a delight.
Cratinus in
Odysseuses: "a novel plaything had been introduced".[5]
Athurma: paignion. Iôsêpos. hos ên tou basileôs athurma kai pros ta skômmata kai tous en tois potois gelôtas epedeiknuto. kai authis: ouk estin andrôn athurmasin emphilochôrein paidiôn. kai en Epigrammasi: Pani de min xessantes hodôi epi kalon athurma kat- thesan. anti tou agalma. Kratinos Odusseusi: neochmon parêchthai athurma.
Notes:
The headword is a neuter noun related to
alpha 768 and
alpha 769.
[1] Same glossing in
Photius (
Lexicon alpha492 and alpha493 Theodoridis) and elsewhere.
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities 12.212 (web address 1 below) on Tryphon.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable; a proverb?
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.37.3 (on an oak bough). The author is unknown. On this epigram, in which herdsmen have fashioned something out of an oak branch and dedicated it to Pan, see Page (381-382) and another extract from it at
rho 316. Page argues that the object was most likely a statue (ibid.).
[5]
Cratinus fr.145 Kock, now 152 K.-A.
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
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Keywords: biography; botany; children; comedy; daily life; definition; food; historiography; history; imagery; poetry; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 November 2000@00:13:46.
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