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Headword:
*boli/s
Adler number: beta,365
Translated headword: throwing-spear
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] missile, javelin, small lance.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] bo/los ["casting-net"], that which is thrown in catching fish.
In the Epigrams: "Pigres throwing his casting-net at winged [birds], Cleitoros [his] among the sea-creatures, Damis [his] among the desert beasts."[2] And elsewhere: "a crag well trodden by fish-spearing gulls".[3]
Also [sc. attested is] bo/los ["cast"], in the Epigrams: "and the cork which serves as the sign of his hidden casts".[4]
Greek Original:*boli/s: be/los, a)ko/ntion, logxa/rion. kai\ *bo/los, to\ ballo/menon ei)s a)/gran i)xqu/wn. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: *pi/grhs me\n ptanoi=sin e)fei\s bo/lon, e)n d' a(li/oisi *klei/twros, e)n qhrsi\n *da=mis e)rhmono/mois. kai\ au)=qis: eu)stibe\s ai)qui/ais i)xqubo/loisi le/pas. kai\ *bo/los, e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kai\ fello\n krufi/wn sh=ma laxo/nta bo/lwn.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.184.3-4 (Zosimos of
Thasos), three huntsmen dedicate their nets to Pan; cf. Page (105) and this poet again on the same theme at
eta 128.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.23.2 (author unknown), a dedication to Hermes by an unnamed fisherman; also at
alpha 4240 and
lambda 284. See Page (323-324).
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.192.6 (
Archias); cf.
tau 1014,
phi 192. On this epigram, a fisherman's dedication to Priapus, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 404-407), (vol. II, 438-439), and further extracts from this epigram at
gamma 54 and
iota 68.
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
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)
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 June 2002@00:19:40.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 13 June 2002@03:51:54.
David Whitehead (modified translation) on 17 March 2005@09:44:25.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 29 May 2012@07:22:24.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 28 June 2012@00:44:25.
David Whitehead on 21 September 2015@07:27:43.
Catharine Roth (tweaked notes) on 19 April 2020@01:31:11.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 8 October 2022@00:59:02.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 17 May 2023@21:37:59.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added to bibliography, added cross-reference) on 28 June 2023@13:02:03.
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