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Headword:
*sigu/nh
Adler number: sigma,370
Translated headword: spear
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested is the accusative plural] sigu/nnous, [meaning] spears.[1]
[Used] among Macedonians. In the Epigrams: "[Harpalion] dedicated to Herakles me, this spear from long ago."[2]
And elsewhere: "[I dedicate] the dog, the pouch, and the crook-toothed spear."[3]
Greek Original:*sigu/nh. kai\ *sigu/nnous, ta\ do/rata. para\ *makedo/sin. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: to/nde par' *(hraklei= qh=ke/ me to\n sigu/nhn e)k pollou= pleiw=nos. kai\ a)llaxou=: to\n ku/na ta\n ph/ran te kai\ a)gkulo/donta si/gunon.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and in a scholion on
Plato,
Erastai [
Lovers] 135E. According to LSJ s.v., the nominative is
sigu/nhs or
si/gunos, often written (as in the accusative plural transmitted here) with double nu.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.93.2-3 with scholion, quoted already at
pi 1736; the correct reading may be
sibu/nhn "hunting spear" (cf.
sigma 363).
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.176.1.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 September 2012@01:24:26.
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