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Headword: *)atalh=|sin
Adler number: alpha,4314
Translated headword: [in] delicate [fillies], [in] tender [fillies]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning in] soft [ones], [in] youthful [ones].[1]
Also [sc. attested is] a)talo/yuxos ["tender-hearted"].
In the Epigrams: "there is not as much distress for young men as falls upon us tender-hearted girls."[2]
Greek Original:
*)atalh=|sin: a(palai=s, neognai=s. kai\ *)atalo/yuxos. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: h)i+qe/ois ou)k e)/sti to/sos po/nos, o(ppo/sos h(mi=n tai=s a)taloyu/xois e)/xrae qhlute/rais.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 20.222, where the headword -- feminine dative plural of this adjective -- occurs: the three thousand mares of Erichthonios delight in their fillies (web address 1 below).
[2] Greek Anthology 5.297.1-2 (Agathias Scholasticus), the laments of girls well-guarded in their chambers; cf. eta 136. See another quote from this epigram at pi 614.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; gender and sexuality; mythology; poetry; women; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2002@22:33:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 10 April 2002@10:20:38.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 28 April 2012@05:18:45.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 April 2015@23:47:25.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 3 April 2015@03:09:51.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 6 December 2015@22:36:43.
Ronald Allen (corrected Anthology reference, expanded n.2, added keyword) on 1 August 2023@10:58:26.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.2) on 1 August 2023@11:41:39.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation after discussion with Ron Allen) on 2 August 2023@21:44:48.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation to match eta 136) on 5 August 2023@19:19:38.

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