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Headword: *prh=nes
Adler number: pi,2264
Translated headword: peaks, promontories
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the stooped parts of mountains.[1]
"For whether as high as the peak of Malea, by it stirred up a wave, [and] thrust [sc. you, Dolphin] onto the sand-laden beaches."[2]
Greek Original:
*prh=nes: oi( proneneuko/tes to/poi tw=n o)re/wn. h)\ ga\r i)/son prhw=ni *malei/hs, w(=| e)kukh/qh ku=ma, poluya/mmous w)=sen e)pi\ yama/qous.
Notes:
The Ionic headword -- here only with this accentuation (contrast pi 2263) -- is glossed as a nominative plural and must presumably, therefore, be accepted as such (rather than being neuter nominative singular of a two-ending neuter adjective; see generally LSJ s.v. pranh/s, -e/s., and cf. pi 2548).
[1] See already at pi 2548. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms G transmits the later variant spelling pronenohko/tes.]
[2] From an epitaph for a dolphin, Greek Anthology 7.214.7-8 (Archias); Gow and Page, vol. I, pp. 414-5. The headland of Cape Malea is the tip of the eastern peninsula extending south from the Peloponnese (Barrington Atlas map 57 grid B5); cf. mu 100. Adler reports that mss GM replace ga\r (for) with ga/rgaron: as high as Gargaron, a wave by the headland of Malea. Gargaron is the crest of Mount Ida, in the Troad, present-day Turkey (Barrington Atlas map 57 grid E2).
Adler also notes that in the margin ms M inserts o)rqo/teron gra/fein ou(/tws: h)= ga\r i)/son p. M. o(\ e)kukh/qh kai\ ta\ e(ch=s: better to write thus: for truly as high as the headland of Malea, there stirred up...and so forth.
The awkward translation "sand-laden...beaches" attempts to preserve a problematic redundancy in the original Greek: poluya/mmous (many-sanded) and yama/qous (sandy shores); for attempted emendations, see Gow and Page, vol. II, pp. 445-6.
References:
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
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 18 January 2011@01:43:33.
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