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Headword:
Kestos
Adler number: kappa,1428
Translated headword: kestos, girdle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The embroidered and decorated girdle; or a garment of Aphrodite. But by extension, also all the showy garments of women.[1]
And in the Epigrams: "and [she] sounding more magically than the kestos".[2] Meaning more enticingly. And elsewhere: "dewy lips, and that youthful honeyed harmony, was the kestos of the Paphian [sc. Aphrodite]."[3]
See under Africanus, who wrote The Kestoi.[4]
Greek Original:Kestos: ho diakekentêmenos kai diapepoikilmenos himas: ê enduma Aphroditês. katachrêstikôs de kai panta ta tôn gunaikôn phanta- siôdê endumata. kai en Epigrammasi: kai kestou phôneusa magôtera. anti tou thelktikôtera. kai authis: cheilea de drosoenta, kai hê meliphurtos ekeinê êtheos harmoniê kestos ephu Paphiês. zêtei en tôi Aphrikanos, hos egrapse tous kestous.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon; see the references at
Photius kappa623 Theodoridis. See also
iota 350,
kappa 2628 (and
kappa 1427).
[2]
Greek Anthology 5.121.3 (
Philodemus); quoted more fully at
mu 26. On this epigram, in which the poet describes a lover's charms, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 354-355), (vol. II, 379), and another extract at
mu 1175.
[3]
Greek Anthology 5.270.7-8 (Paul the Silentiary), on the poet's lover's beauty. See further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 2999,
epsilon 1172, and
lambda 635.
[4]
Sextus Julius Africanus:
alpha 4647.
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: biography; clothing; definition; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; mythology; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 November 2008@11:53:43.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 11 November 2008@02:59:24.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 19 February 2013@07:10:32.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 April 2015@22:55:55.
Catharine Roth (tweaked references) on 8 August 2019@01:06:43.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference) on 9 February 2023@14:34:41.
Ronald Allen (augmented n.3, added cross-reference) on 3 August 2023@22:23:39.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 3 August 2023@22:30:43.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.3) on 9 August 2023@20:45:35.
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