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Headword: Phukida
Adler number: phi,819
Translated headword: wrasse
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
And in the Epigrams: "a mullet from the charcoals and a wrasse, Artemis of the harbour, I give to you."
Greek Original:
Phukida: en Epigrammasi: triglan ap' anthrakiês kai phukida soi limenêtin, Artemi, dôreumai.
Note:
Greek Anthology 6.105.1-2 (Apollonides), from alpha 2523; headword in accusative case. On this epigram, in which the fisherman Menis makes offerings to Artemis, see Gow and Page vol. I (126-127); vol. II (148-149); and further extracts at alpha 4456, lambda 544, tau 962, and zeta 164. Paton (356-357) translates the headword as "hake", a large food-fish of the cod family, found in the open ocean. However, Aristotle History of Animals 567b18-21 explains that the fu/khs is a small fish. Moreover, the LSJ s.v. (web address 1) notes that this fish species, probably a wrasse in the genus Labrus, lives in seaweed (fu=kos), which typically grows in shallow water, especially along rocky shorelines.
References:
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)
W.R. Paton, trans., The Greek Anthology: Books I-VI, (Cambridge, MA 1993)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 February 2009@22:59:39.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 15 February 2009@04:27:45.
David Whitehead (expanded note; another keyword) on 15 February 2009@04:28:51.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 31 May 2020@17:03:25.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Managing Editor Catharine Roth; expanded note, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 8 July 2022@11:47:31.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note (my mistake)) on 8 July 2022@23:11:49.
Ronald Allen (further expanded note, added to bibliography, added keyword) on 21 July 2022@12:35:41.

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