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Headword:
*phkti/s
Adler number: pi,1502
Translated headword: harp
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
phkti/s, genitive]
phkti/dos: a lute,[1] a meat-cutting knife.[2]
In
Aristophanes in
Thesmophoriazusae [it is] a type of lyre-like instrument. "Are you asking for the old woman who was carrying the harps?"[3]
Or a type of licentious contrivance.[4]
And in the
Epigrams: "sweet is the melody, Arcadian Pan’s very own, that thou playest upon the harp".[5]
Greek Original:*phkti/s, phkti/dos: pa/ndoura, ma/xaira krewko/pos. para\ de\ *)aristofa/nei e)n *qesmoforiazou/sais ei)=dos o)rga/nou kiqarw|dikou=. th\n grau=n e)rwta=|s, h(\ 'fe/ren ta\s phkti/das; h)\ ei)=dos a)kola/stou sxh/matos. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a(du\ me/los, nai\ *pa=na to\n *)arka/da, phkti/di me/lpeis.
Notes:
[1] See
pi 181. See similarly
Synagoge pi456:
πανδούριον (Cunningham), from which derives
Photius,
Lexicon s.v. (427.26 Porson, pi849 Theodoridis). Adler reports a corresponding entry in the
Ambrosian Lexicon. See also
Hesychius sigma2171.
[2] See again
pi 181. This gloss is unique to the Suda and the source unknown.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 1217, with scholion (Dübner).
[4] As Adler notes, this phrase -- which has already appeared, in error, under
pi 1501 -- comes from the
Glossae in Herodotum, on
Herodotus 1.17.1: Alyattes, king of
Lydia (
alpha 1423), used to invade Milesian territory at harvest-time
u(po\ suri/ggwn te kai\ phkti/dwn, 'to the sound of pipes and harps'. That episode itself was presumably devoid of licentiousness, but more generally the characterisation does reflect what archaic and classical writers felt; see West 74-75.
[5]
Greek Anthology 5.139.1 (Meleager [
Author,
Myth]).
Reference:
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxdord 1992) 70-75
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Translated by: Philip Rance on 5 March 2012@02:42:54.
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