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Headword:
Atrakton
Adler number: alpha,4378
Translated headword: arrow; spindle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a missile [expressed] metaphorically
Sophocles [writes]: "in addition to these things, whatever my string-sped arrow might hit, unfortunate wretch that I am, I would crawl to it myself, dragging my foot."[1]
And
Procopius [writes]: "when one of those defending themselves in the battlements sent forth a well-aimed arrow, he was hurt and killed."[2]
And
Menander [writes]: "he shot at the barbarian and then stretched out the wing [sc. of the battle line] and sent a well-aimed arrow at Koch."[3]
And in the
Epigrams: "he sends forth burning arrow upon burning arrow."[4]
An
atraktos ["spindle"] [is] also the instrument of women.
"The spindle, the whirling servant of the spidery thread, not without its long distaff."[5]
And elsewhere: "and the finger-worn spindle, skimming over the spinning thread."[6]
And elsewhere: "and the staggering whistling spindle, agile spinner of the pliant thread."[7]
Greek Original:Atrakton: belos metaphorikôs. Sophoklês: pros de toutois, ho moi baloi neurospadês atraktos, autos an talas eiluomên dustênos exelkôn poda. kai Prokopios: tinos tôn en tais epalxesin amunomenôn eustochôtata aphientos ton atrakton anêirêtai blabeis. kai Menandros: ho de epetoxazeto kata tou barbarou, kai mala eustochôtata to keras ekteinas aphiêsi ton atrakton kata tou Kôch. kai en Epigrammasi: thermon d' epi thermôi iallei atrakton. Atraktos kai to gunaikeion ergaleion. arachnaioio mitou poludinea latrin atrakton, dolichas ouk ater alakatas. kai authis: kai daktulotripton atrakton, spondulodinêtôi nêmati nêchomenon. kai authis: ton te karêbareonta, poluroibêton atrakton, klôstêra streptas eudromon harpedonas.
Notes:
[1]
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 289-291 (web address 1 below); cf.
nu 271.
[2] Adler queried the attribution of this quotation to
Procopius, and it is in fact unidentifiable.
[3]
Menander Protector fr. 31.1 Blockley; cf.
kappa 2311.
[4]
Greek Anthology 5.188.3-4 (
Leonidas of
Tarentum), on the assaults of love; cf. Gow and Page (
Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, 136) and (
Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, 389-390).
[5]
Greek Anthology 6.39.3-4 (
Archias), three sisters dedicate spinning and weaving instruments to Athena, already in part at
alpha 3749 and again at
mu 1135; cf. Gow and Page (
Garland of Philip, vol. I, 404-405); (
Garland of Philip, vol. II, 437); and further excerpts from this epigram at
mu 473,
pi 2005,
tau 38, and
chi 208.
[6]
Greek Anthology 6.247.3-4 (Philip), the weaver Aesione dedicates implements of her craft to Athena; cf. Gow and Page (
Garland of Philip, vol. I, 312-313); (
Garland of Philip, vol. II, 345); and further extracts from the same epigram at
kappa 2515,
lambda 371,
omicron 587, and
tau 39. An excerpt from another epigram (6.160) with the same theme follows.
[7]
Greek Anthology 6.160.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon), another dedication of spinning and weaving instruments to Athena; cf. Gow and Page (
Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, 12) and (
Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, 36-37). Gow and Page find neither this epigram nor the previous one (6.247) to be compellingly genuine dedications (
Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, 36).
References:
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)
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)
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 March 2002@14:47:28.
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