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Headword:
*au)lo/s
Adler number: alpha,4447
Translated headword: aulos, pipe
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a straight spouting-out of blood. And a fitting [groove] of a buckle.[1] And a type of musical instrument.[2]
Also [sc. attested is] 'pipe' [in the sense of] a lengthy blowpipe.
In the Epigrams: and again:[3] "the wind-loving blacksmith's pipe."[4]
Greek Original:*au)lo/s: o( ei)s eu)qu\ e)cakontismo\s tou= ai(/matos. kai\ pero/nhs me/tron. kai\ mousikh=s ti o)/rganon. kai\ *au)lo/s, o( e)pimh/khs fushth/r. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kai\ au)=qis: au)lo\n kamineuth=ra to\n filh/nemon.
Notes:
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 17.297,
Odyssey 22.19; and see
pi 1361.
[2] Conventionally translated as "flute", but only, nowadays, by those with a woeful ignorance of musical instruments; actually more like an oboe. See generally M.L. West,
Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 81-109.
[3] Adler notes (but does not follow) Kuster's deletion of the words "and again".
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.92.1 (Philip), the goldsmith Demophon dedicates his tools to Hermes, the patron of smiths; cf.
phi 330. Also see Gow and Page (vol. I, 304-307), (vol. II, 339), and a further excerpt from the same epigram at
rho 169.
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)
Keywords: definition; epic; imagery; medicine; meter and music; poetry; religion; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: William Hutton on 23 March 2002@15:31:55.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 11 April 2002@06:57:18.
David Whitehead (tweaked translation; cosmetics) on 9 May 2006@08:26:09.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; tweaking) on 30 April 2012@08:27:30.
David Whitehead (coding and other cosmetics) on 10 September 2015@10:50:07.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keyword) on 2 March 2021@17:16:56.
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