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*)hri/a
Adler number: eta,511
Translated headword: barrows, mounds
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] tombs in the earth.[1] "When building, under the earth, most lamentable mounds, so that I might bury [your] body there when you died."[2] And elsewhere: "I built a mound from a lump of thirsty earth, so that even when you were dead the grain-nourishing furrow of Demeter might delight you, as you lay in a plowed bed-chamber."[3]
Greek Original:*)hri/a: ta\ e)n th=| gh=| mnh/mata. h(ni/ka kai\ dusda/kruta kata\ xqono\s h)ri/a teu/xwn, e(/ws a)\n a)pefqime/nou kei=qi de/mas kteri/sw. kai\ au)=qis: h)ri/on e)k bw/lou diya/dos e)ktisa/mhn, o)/fra se kai\ fqi/menon *dhou=s staxuhtro/fos au)=lac qe/lgh|, a)rotrai/h| kei/menon e)n qala/mh|.
Notes:
See also
eta 512,
eta 520.
[1] cf. generally
Hesychius eta774 (plural) and eta794 (singular) and a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 23.126.
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.180.3-4 (Apollonidas), here with some variant readings. On this epigram, wherein a slave digging his master's tomb dies when the roof collapses upon him, see Gow and Page
Garland of Philip, vol. I (128-129) and vol. II (150-151).
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.209.2-4 (generally attributed to Antipater of Sidon), for an ant; cf. Gow and Page
Hellenistic Epigrams, (vol. I, 30), (vol. II, 79-80), and other excerpts from this epigram at
alpha 1373 and
delta 1567. Gow and Page read along with the Suda, but note (vol. I, 30) that here the
Anthologia Planudea reads
staxuhfo/ros (
grain-bearing).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip, vol. I, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip, vol. II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968
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: agriculture; botany; daily life; definition; epic; food; imagery; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 March 2005@01:08:36.
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