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Headword:
*)/akratos
Adler number: alpha,964
Translated headword: unmixed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Xenophon [writes]: "the wine was entirely unmixed, unless someone poured water in."[1]
And elsewhere: "the woman skilled at sipping three times a cup of unmixed wine."[2]
Greek Original:*)/akratos: *cenofw=n: pa/nu de\ h)=n o( oi)=nos a)/kratos, ei) mh/ tis u(/dwr e)pixe/oi. kai\ au)=qis: h( tri\s e)fech=s ei)dui=a a)krh/tou xeilopotei=n ku/lika.
Notes:
cf. generally
alpha 960,
alpha 962,
alpha 966.
[1]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 4.5.27 (web address 1); cf.
mu 1381.
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.223.3-4.(
Thyillus), an epitaph for a votary of Kybele; cf. Page (96-98). As Page notes (97), here both the
Anthologia Palatina and the
Anthologia Planudea transmit
ku/likas (thus, "three cups"); however, Page follows (ibid.) the Suda in reading the accusative singular ("sipping the same cup thrice"). On the Phrygian goddess Kybele, see
kappa 2586.
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: food; historiography; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 22 June 2000@21:44:32.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 4 June 2002@11:04:19.
David Whitehead (more x-refs; cosmetics) on 29 January 2012@08:53:36.
Catharine Roth (changed link) on 29 April 2012@00:43:21.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 14 May 2015@23:17:51.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keyword) on 27 June 2023@11:33:06.
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