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Headword: Phorminx
Adler number: phi,603
Translated headword: lyre
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] kithara.[1]
[The word is found] in Epigrams: "the lyre and the bow and curved nets [belong] to Phoebus."[2]
Greek Original:
Phorminx: kithara. en Epigrammasi: ha phorminx ta te toxa kai ankula diktua Phoibôi.
Notes:
cf. generally beta 110, kappa 1590, nu 473, psi 17.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.603, where the headword occurs in the genitive case.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.118.1 (attributed to Antipater of Sidon), a woman musician and two men dedicate items of their crafts to Apollo; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 27) and (vol. II, 74). Gow and Page note (ibid.) that later lines in the epigram--in particular that the musical instrument incorporates a tortoise-shell sounding box (a( de\ lurw|do\s ta\n xe/lun) and is therefore a much cruder instrument than a kithara, as the Suda's gloss suggests--identify the fo/rmigc here as a lyre.
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)
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Translated by: Kyle Helms on 30 April 2012@06:55:09.
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