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Headword:
*plokami/s
Adler number: pi,1784
Translated headword: lock of hair
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Instead of a lock of hair, Far-shooter, may beauty be upon you."
Greek Original:*plokami/s. a)nti\ de/ soi plokami=dos, *(ekhbo/le, ka/llos e)pei/h.
Notes:
Greek Anthology 6.279.3 (Euphorion, cf.
epsilon 3801), where instead of
soi "upon you" the text has
oi( "upon him" (the boy who has just had his first haircut); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 98), (vol. II, 285), and another excerpt from this epigram at
epsilon 319. The headword is a poetic equivalent of
plo/kamos (
pi 1785); cf.
pi 1787,
pi 1788,
pi 1801.
"Far-shooter" is an epithet of Apollo (see
epsilon 432).
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: children; clothing; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 October 2012@02:22:01.
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