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Headword: Tumpanos
Adler number: tau,1167
Translated headword: kettledrum
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In the masculine.[1]
"At the breath of some divinity he laid his hands on a sounding kettledrum."[2]
Greek Original:
Tumpanos: arsenikôs. kai tinos aurêi daimonos es ton heon tumpanon hêke cheras.
Notes:
[1] Usually neuter, tu/mpanon (or tu/panon): cf. tau 1164, tau 1166, tau 1174.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.220.9-10 (Dioskorides/Dioscorides), which has tono/en "sounding," as translated here, not the Suda's to\n e(o\n "his own". In this epigram a Gallus drives away a threatening lion by beating his kettledrum; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 85-86); (vol. II, 245-246); and further excerpts from this epigram at epsilon 4078, theta 198, lambda 74, mu 1394, omicron 374, and theta 6. The Galli (gamma 41 and gamma 42) were eunuch priests devoted to the Phrygian goddess Kybele (kappa 2586).
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)
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; meter and music; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 February 2014@01:49:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 2 February 2014@04:22:17.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 29 November 2021@12:51:24.

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