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Headword:
*ai(male/as
Adler number: alphaiota,188
Translated headword: bloody
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Eight...cuirasses and just as many bloody scimitars."[1]
Greek Original:*ai(male/as: o)ktw\ qw/rhkas, to/ssas d' ai(male/as kopi/das.
Notes:
The headword, accusative plural of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.129.1-2 (
Leonidas of
Tarentum), a dedication to Athena of spoils exacted from the Lucanians (abridged); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 118), (vol. II, 344-345), and a further extract from this epigram at
theta 605. The Lucanians were from Samnium (central-southern Italy, Barrington Atlas map 44 grids F2-G2) and were often on hostile terms with the Tarentines from ca. 295 BCE to 285 BCE (vol. II, 344). But beyond this it is difficult to reliably assign a place and date for this dedication, as Gow and Page explain (ibid.).
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: clothing; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; military affairs; poetry; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 10 December 2002@02:23:08.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note; modified keywords) on 10 December 2002@04:56:11.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 8 January 2003@22:45:05.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 14 May 2012@09:54:20.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keywords) on 15 March 2021@21:53:46.
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