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Headword: *tri/nac
Adler number: tau,994
Translated headword: three-pronger, three-pronged mattock
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A farmer's tool.
In the Epigrams: "and wooden three-prongers, hands of plough-labourers."[1]
Greek Original:
*tri/nac: gewrgiko\n e)rgalei=on. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kai\ tri/nakas culi/nas, xei=ras a)rouropo/nwn.
Notes:
The headword is indeed a farming tool with three tines, but it is not a mattock as the LSJ indicates s.v. tri/nac (web address 1); see next note.
[1] Greek Anthology 6.104.6 (Philip), the farmer Lusixenos's dedication to Demeter; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 310-311); (vol. II, 343); and further excerpts from this epigram at alpha 4721, beta 455, gamma 54, upsilon 120, omega 69, and omega 81. The three-pronged implements that Lusixenos consecrates here are pitchforks or winnowing forks, which are used to toss ears of threshed grain into the wind so as to remove the dried husks; cf. Gow and Page vol. II (126), Paton (354-355), Greek Anthology 6.94 (Antiphilus), and theta 498 note 3.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
W.R. Paton, trans., The Greek Anthology: Books I-VI, (Cambridge, MA 1993)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; botany; definition; imagery; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 May 2011@06:01:58.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 20 May 2011@15:48:10.
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