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Headword:
Agroteras
Adler number: alpha,370
Translated headword: of wilde
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] of wild.[1]
In the Epigrams: "Dionysos himself dedicated to you this club of wilde olive[-wood]."[2]
Greek Original:Agroteras: agriou. en Epigrammasi: touto soi agroterês Dionusios autos elaiês thêke rhopalon.
Notes:
The headword, genitive singular, is presumably extracted from the quotation given (where it appears as
a)grote/rhs).
[1] An uncommon (and poetic) adjective with this meaning is glossed with a common one.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.3.3-4 (
Dionysius), the dedication of an olive-wood club to Heracles; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (81) and vol. II (234-235); cf. another excerpt from this epigram at
pi 2954. It is possible that the epigrammatist is indeed the dedicator, but it is unlikely that they are just namesakes, and, in any case, Gow and Page suggest (ibid.) that the epigram's attribution is suspicious.
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)
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; religion
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 28 August 1998@16:57:20.
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