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Headword: *)axarnei/ths
Adler number: alpha,4677
Translated headword: Acharnite
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning someone/something] from Athens.[1] "Often in orchestras and on stages the curving blooming Acharnite ivy adorned his hair."[2]
Greek Original:
*)axarnei/ths: *)aqh/nhqen. polla/kis e)n qume/lh|si kai\ e)n skhnh=|si teqhlw\s blaiso\s *)axarnei/ths kisso\s e)/reye ko/mhn.
Notes:
[1] More exactly, from Acharnai, the largest town in rural Attica. See generally under delta 1515.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.21.3-4 (which has *)axarni/ths); cf. beta 327, theta 556. On this epigram, an epitaph for Sophocles attributed to Simias, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 178), (vol. II, 513-514), and another extract at kappa 1272.
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: botany; definition; geography; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@15:48:09.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; added keywords) on 6 June 2001@04:14:17.
David Whitehead (expanded note; tweaks) on 3 August 2011@05:39:42.
David Whitehead on 11 September 2015@08:17:54.
Catharine Roth (tweaked betacode) on 3 January 2016@01:08:35.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference) on 19 April 2022@12:41:10.
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