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Headword:
*)/axnous
Adler number: alpha,4706
Translated headword: clean-shaven
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] beardless.
"Who set you up, clean-shaven Hermes, by the starting-gates?"[1]
Greek Original:*)/axnous: a)ge/neios. ti/s to\n a)/xnoun *(ermh=n se par' u(splh/gessin e)/qhken;
Notes:
Likewise in ps.-
Zonaras. The headword, nominative case of this adjective, is presumably generated by the accusative in the epigram quoted.
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.259.1 (Philip); cf.
upsilon 684. On this epigram, a traveler's dialogue with a statue of Hermes erected by a victorious athlete, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 312-313), (vol. II, 346), and further excerpts at
pi 1841 and
sigma 981.
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)
Keywords: art history; athletics; definition; poetry; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@22:51:10.
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