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Headword: Halinêkteiran
Adler number: alpha,1234
Translated headword: sea-swimming [olive]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the [one] swimming in the ocean. "And this leafless, sea-swimming olive".[1]
Greek Original:
Halinêkteiran: tên en halsi nêchomenên. kai tautên apetêlon, halinêkteiran elaiên.
Notes:
The headword, feminine accusative singular, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
cf. generally alpha 1235.
[1] Greek Anthology 6.190.5 (Gaetulicus); again at alpha 3086. On this epigram, a dedication to Aphrodite, see Page (52-54) and its further excerpts at alphaiota 392, kappa 2665, pi 969, sigma 958, and psi 35. The epigram is an imitation of Greek Anthology 6.300 by Leonidas of Tarentum; cf. alpha 2388, pi 1568, upsilon 570, and psi 35.
Reference:
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; poetry; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 May 2000@10:30:22.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keyword) on 29 January 2001@08:41:55.
David Whitehead on 29 January 2001@08:49:50.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 6 February 2012@07:20:50.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 31 March 2012@23:56:19.
David Whitehead on 2 June 2015@03:31:57.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 14 June 2023@11:23:36.

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