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Headword:
*eu)agh/s
Adler number: epsilon,3360
Translated headword: brilliant, holy, undefiled
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he who/that which is] well led-around.[1]
A metaphorical circle.[2]
And in the
Epigrams: "this dust covers the Pierian trumpet,
Pindar the weighty smith of holy hymns."[3]
Greek Original:*eu)agh/s: kalw=s perihgme/nos. metaforiko\s ku/klos. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: *pierika\n sa/lpigga, to\n eu)age/wn baru\n u(/mnwn xalkeuta\n kate/xei *pi/ndaron h(/de ko/nis.
Notes:
cf.
epsilon 3358,
epsilon 3359. The first part of the present entry (before the quotation) is also in ps.-
Zonaras.
[1] i.e. etymologized as if from
eu)= and
a)/gw.
[2] Likewise (though with 'metaphorical' as an adverb) in
Photius.
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.34.1-2; quoted again at
chi 33. For
Pindar see generally
pi 1617,
pi 1619; for Pieria, one of the notional homes of the Muses,
pi 1564.
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; imagery; meter and music; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 January 2008@22:10:14.
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