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Headword: *xermasth/r
Adler number: chi,207
Translated headword: stone-slinger
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a sling.
"Stretching the well-twisted arms of [my] leather stone-slinger."[1]
Greek Original:
*xermasth/r: h( sfendo/nh. r(inou= xermasth=ros e)u/+strofa kw=la titai/nwn.
Note:
[1] Greek Anthology 7.172.3 (Antipater of Sidon), a farmer is snake-bitten while trying to drive birds away from his crops; see also more fully at alpha 3313, kappa 2231, and rho 174; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 18-19); (vol. II, 51-52); and further excerpts from this epigram at beta 308, epsilon 1287, omicron 971, and psi 75. Gow and Page note (vol. II, 51) that the headword, xermasth/r (stone-slinger), here in the genitive singular, is not attested elsewhere.
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: agriculture; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; military affairs; poetry; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 March 2008@15:22:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 20 March 2008@09:34:56.
David Whitehead on 10 November 2013@07:44:30.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 12 January 2020@22:31:35.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 23 June 2021@15:35:27.

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