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Headword:
*)arnume/nh
Adler number: alpha,3988
Translated headword: gaining
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning she who is] exchanging. "For each [girl] wished to live, stranger, without any reproach and gaining a living from her own hands."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related infinitive]
a)/rnusqai ["to gain"], [meaning] to exchange. Whence also the [verb]
misqarnei=n ["to earn a wage"] is said [to be] to take a salary in exchange for something. But [
a)/rnusqai] stands for procuring and for maintaining. Thus
Plato [sc. uses the word].[2]
*)arnume/nh: a)ntikatalla/ssousa. zw/ein ga\r di/xa panto\s o)nei/deos h)/qel' e(ka/sta, cei=ne, to\n e)k xeirw=n a)rnume/na bi/oton. kai\ *)/arnusqai, a)ntikatalla/ssesqai. o(/qen kai\ to\ misqarnei=n, to\n misqo\n a)nti/ tinos lamba/nein le/getai. lamba/netai de\ a)nti\ tou= peripoiou/menos kai\ a)nti\ tou= fula/ttwn. ou(/tws *pla/twn.
Notes:
The headword participle is presumably extracted from the first quotation given (where it appears in Doric dialect form).
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.174.7-8 (generally attributed to Antipater of Sidon), three women dedicate spinning and weaving instruments to Athena, again at
omicron 340; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 12-13); (vol. II, 37-38); and further excerpts from this epigram at
alpha 3750,
eta 190,
kappa 1400,
mu 1135, and
tau 38. On Gow and Page's hesitation (ibid., 37) in assigning the epigram to this Antipater, see
alpha 3750 note.
[2] (cf.
mu 1117.)
Plato,
Protagoras 349A (web address 1 below); cf.
Plato,
Republic 346C, with the
scholia thereto.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1965)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; philosophy; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 31 July 2001@09:48:49.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 1 August 2001@03:45:43.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 1 December 2005@07:02:40.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 12 April 2012@09:59:29.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 24 January 2014@08:40:36.
David Whitehead on 31 August 2015@07:27:27.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 10 September 2020@18:35:15.
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