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Headword: *)amfe/xane
Adler number: alpha,1693
Translated headword: swallowed up
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] gulped down.[1]
"Black death swallowed them up."[2]
Greek Original:
*)amfe/xane: katape/pwke. tou\s d' o( me/las a)mfe/xane qa/natos.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 23.79, where the headword occurs.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.131.4 (Leonidas of Tarentum), a dedication to Athena of spoils seized after a battle; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 118), (vol. II, 345-346), and further lines from this epigram at delta 155.
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: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; military affairs; poetry; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 October 2000@09:00:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 17 June 2001@08:05:37.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 17 February 2012@05:25:42.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 25 February 2012@22:47:39.
David Whitehead on 20 June 2015@10:27:44.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keywords) on 26 January 2021@13:43:45.

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