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Headword:
*meli/ai
Adler number: mu,504
Translated headword: ash [spears]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] projectiles.[1]
Spears.[2]
"The women had ashen shuttles": Gregory the Theologian says [this].[3]
And in the Epigrams: "thus, o tall ash-spear, rest by the long roof-pillar, awaiting the rites of Zeus the diviner."[4]
Greek Original:*meli/ai: be/lh. do/rata. meli/ai d' h)=san au)tai=s ai( kerki/des: fhsi\n o( qeolo/gos *grhgo/rios. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: ou(/tw toi, meli/a tanaa/, poti\ ki/ona makro\n h(=so, panomfai/w| *zhni\ me/nous' i(era/.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in
Hesychius, the
Synagoge,
Photius'
Lexicon, and the
Lexica Segueriana.
[2] Same glossing in ps.-
Zonaras.
[3] Gregory of Nazianzus (at PG 36.570b). Or rather, "the women's shuttles served as spears": working people, women and men, armed themselves with their tools (see web address 1).
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.52.1-2 (attributed to
Simonides); quoted also at
eta 597 and
tau 70. See another excerpt from this epigram at
tau 418. For Zeus Panomphaios, see
pi 205.
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; Christianity; definition; epic; imagery; military affairs; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 May 2009@01:07:34.
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