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Headword: *ku/knos
Adler number: kappa,2656
Translated headword: swan
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

A bird that loves singing.[1]
"[Alkman], a swan singing strains worthy of the Muses."[2]

Greek Original:

*ku/knos: o)/rneon filw|do/n. ku/knon to\n *mousw=n a)/cia melya/menon.

Notes:

[1] cf. kappa 2655, and see generally LSJ s.v. ku/kneios.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.19.2 (Leonidas of Tarentum), a fictitious epitaph for Alkman, again more fully at upsilon 104; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 125-126), (vol. II, 366), and another extract from this epigram at lambda 763. For Alkman see alpha 1289.

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: biography; definition; imagery; meter and music; mythology; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 October 2003@01:00:43.
Vetted by:

Ross Scaife ✝ (upped status) on 29 October 2003@16:02:04.
Catharine Roth (completed cross-reference) on 29 October 2003@17:09:47.
David Whitehead (augmented note 1) on 30 October 2003@03:14:54.
David Whitehead on 20 March 2013@07:51:10.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 1 May 2021@11:13:18.

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