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Headword:
*)agaqw/nios
Adler number: alpha,125
Translated headword: Agathonios, Agathonius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.[1]
[The man] who was king of Tartessos.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "
Agathon's pipe-playing": the soft and relaxed [kind]; alternatively that which is neither loose nor harsh, but temperate and very sweet.[3]
*)agaqw/nios: o)/noma ku/rion. o(\s e)basi/leuse th=s *tarthssou=. kai\ *)agaqw/nios au)/lhsis: h( malakh\ kai\ e)klelume/nh: h)\ h( mh/te xalara\, mh/te pikra\, a)ll' eu)/kratos kai\ h(di/sth.
Notes:
[1]
Herodotus 1.163 gives it as Arganthonios (text at web address 1). See also
tau 137.
[2] In southern
Spain; probably the Biblical Tarshish. See generally
tau 137 and OCD(4) s.v. (p.1433).
[3]
Zenobius 1.2. On
Agathon (an Athenian poet of the late C5 BC) and his reputation for softness see
alpha 124; and on his aulos music, M.L. West,
Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 354-5.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; imagery; meter and music; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 February 2001@09:33:27.
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