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Headword: *qrigko/s
Adler number: theta,497
Translated headword: cornice
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the fence around the house, a crown,[1] a small wall, an enclosure [wall].[2]
Or, the upper parts of houses. A metaphor drawn from us, because the upper parts of our bodies are fenced around with hairs.[3]
In the Epigrams: "[who] among mortals hung these spoils on my cornices?"[4]
Interpretation of a dream: eating lettuce signifies a disease of the body.[5]
The leaves of lettuce plants are called greens.[6]
Greek Original:
*qrigko/s: to\ peri/fragma tou= oi)/kou, stefa/nh, mikro\n teixi/on, peri/bolos. h)\ tw=n oi)kiw=n ta\ a)nwta/tw. metaforikw=s a)f' h(mw=n, dio/ti ta\ a)nwta/tw sw/mata h(mw=n qrici\ peripe/fraktai. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: ta/de moi qnhtw=n qrigkoi=sin a)nh=ye sku=la; lu/sis o)nei/rou: qri/dakas e)/sqein swma/twn dhloi= no/son. o(/ti tw=n qrida/kwn ta\ fu/lla fullei=a le/gontai.
Notes:
[1] Ps.-Herodian 593.21 and Hesychius theta749 have in this place 'the crown of a wall', which may be more accurate (cf. also scholia to Homer, Odyssey 7.86), though see below.
[2] So far the entry is most similar (but not identical) to Lexica Segueriana 257.25 Bachmann; Photius, Lexicon theta95; a scholion to Plato, Republic 534E. Compare also Hesychius theta749 (see above note) Etymologicum Magnum 455.52-7. Like the Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum (here and at 319.27-30) and the Lexicon Gudianum 265.16 state or imply that the headword can refer to the type of "crown" one wears on the head; that usage does not seem to occur outside lexicography. See also also scholia to Homer, Odyssey 16.165; Apollonius, Homeric Lexicon 88.19. Adler also cites the unedited Lexicon Ambrosianum (335).
[3] cf. Lexicon Gudianum 265.16; Etymologicum Magnum 319.27-30. The word for hair in the nominative singular (qri/c) and dative plural (qrici/, used here) is similar to the headword (qrigko/s). For an alternative etymology (from the verb tre/xw ('run')), see Etymologicum Magnum 455.52-57.
[4] Greek Anthology 6.163.1-2 (Meleager [Author, Myth]), Ares objects to the presence in his shrine of unsullied weapons of war; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (249); vol. II (670-671); and further excerpts from this epigram at epsilon 1124, epsilon 1390, and lambda 792.
[5] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychus (alpha 4251). See further, next note.
[6] From phi 833. This sentence and the preceding one, which exist only as a marginal note in ms A, seems to belong to a non-existent entry on qri/dac ('lettuce'), which would follow immediately upon this entry in alphabetical order (unless they were meant to be attached to the end of the preceding entry, theta 496).
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)
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Translated by: William Hutton on 11 February 2007@08:59:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics) on 11 February 2007@09:13:05.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 January 2013@08:37:42.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 25 April 2015@22:05:48.
David Whitehead (note tweak) on 26 April 2015@03:38:25.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 16 December 2018@01:42:32.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 11 August 2022@12:54:09.
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