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Headword: *oi)=mos
Adler number: omicroniota,97
Translated headword: path, way
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] road; or verse; or spoke of a wheel.[1] From this a parable is named too, the passing tale.[2]
"The work of Alexander the Macedonian, we who once followed the lord Darius on [our] last path."[3]
Greek Original:
*oi)=mos: o(do/s: h)\ sti/xos: h)\ r(a/bdos ku/klou. e)/nqen kai\ paroimi/a ke/klhtai, to\ parodiko\n dih/ghma. e)/rgon *)aleca/ndroio *makhdo/nos, oi(/ pot' a)/nakti *darei/w| puma/thn oi)=mon e)fespo/meqa.
Notes:
On possible etymologies of oi)=mos or oi(=mos, see Chantraine s.v.; and cf. phi 745.
[1] cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 11.24; scholion on Pindar, Olympian 9.72d. See also omicroniota 95, omicroniota 100. [LSJ s.v. r(a/bdos does not mention the use of the word for any part of a wheel, but elsewhere rhabdoi are slender; so better 'spoke' than axle.]
[2] (cf. pi 733.) Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius omicron110 Theodoridis.
[3] Greek Anthology 7.246.3-4: Antipater of Sidon, epitaph for fallen Persian soldiers. As the epigram's first two lines--not included in the Suda--make clear, Antipater refers to Alexander's victory in 333 BCE over forces led by Darius III at the battle of Issos (Issus, Nikopolis; cf. iota 662; in the modern Turkish Hatay Province, near the Syrian border; Barrington Atlas map 67 grid C3); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 19). Gow and Page (vol. II, 53-54) find the inspiration for this particular epitaph to be curious. The epigrammatist may have been motivated, they suggest (ibid.), by the fact that Alexander's Issos victory enabled his further advance south to Antipater's birthplace of Sidon (sigma 383, Barrington Atlas map 69 grid B2).
References:
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 (Paris 2009)
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; epic; geography; history; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 June 2005@00:41:37.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 9 June 2005@03:11:49.
David Whitehead (tweaked translation; augmented n.1) on 10 June 2005@03:07:45.
Catharine Roth (betacode cosmeticule) on 10 June 2005@12:35:38.
Catharine Roth (added note, cross-reference, and bibliography) on 12 November 2010@17:27:01.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2 and keywords; cosmetics) on 7 August 2013@05:07:41.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 6 October 2020@13:47:09.

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