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Headword: *)/afatoi
Adler number: alpha,4564
Translated headword: immense, monstrous
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning ones that are] great or astonishing. In the Epigrams: "three immense heads of Mainadian deer with blazing horns are laid up for you, Apollo."[1]
Greek Original:
*)/afatoi: mega/lai h)\ kataplhktikai/. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: trei=s a)/fatoi kera/essin u(p' ai)qou/sais toi\, *)/apollon, a)/gkeintai kefalai\ *mainadi/wn e)la/fwn.
Notes:
The headword, nominative plural of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation given (on which see the next note).
[1] Greek Anthology 6.112.1-2 (Perses), where the adjective is Mainalian (i.e. from Mt. Mainalos in Arkadia); cf. mu 329. On this epigram, the dedication of antlers at a temple of Apollo, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 155-156) and (vol. II, 447-448). Gow and Page note (ibid.) that there is no evidence that the dedication was made at Delphi.
References:
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: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 December 2001@10:53:48.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 6 December 2001@02:13:05.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords) on 6 May 2012@08:37:12.
David Whitehead on 11 September 2015@05:03:32.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 22 July 2020@17:25:41.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography) on 23 January 2022@12:09:37.

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