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Headword:
*duhpaqh/s
Adler number: delta,1567
Translated headword: misery-suffering
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone] patient.
"Here by the threshing-floor, misery-suffering worker ant, I built a mound for you from a lump of thirsty earth."[1]
Greek Original:*duhpaqh/s: o( karteriko/s. au)tou= soi par' a(/lwni, duhpaqe\s e)rga/ta mu/rmhc, h)ri/on e)k bw/lou diya/dos e)ktisa/man.
Notes:
For the headword adjective cf. generally
delta 1564,
delta 1566.
[1]
Greek Anthology 7.209.1-2 (generally attributed to Antipater of Sidon), epitaph for an ant, already at
alpha 1373; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 30), (vol. II, 79-80), and another extract from this epigram at
eta 511.
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; daily life; definition; ethics; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 March 2005@00:40:35.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 27 March 2005@04:25:25.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; tweaking) on 18 July 2012@09:18:28.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography) on 19 July 2021@12:22:26.
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