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Headword:
*eu)erkei=
Adler number: epsilon,3441
Translated headword: well-fenced
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] excellently fortified.[1] "[...] so that [it] may make a sound for me within the well-fenced house."[2]
Greek Original:*eu)erkei=: kalw=s h)sfalisme/nw|. o)/fra moi eu)erkei= kanaxa\n do/mw| e)/ndoqi qei/h.
Notes:
[1] cf.
Hesychius s.v.
eu)erke/s. Here dative singular, evidently extracted from the quotation given.
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.193.3 (
Simias), recounting the capture and confinement of a pet locust (or a grasshopper) expected to sing; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 178), (vol. II, 512), and another extract from this epigram at
pi 3049.
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)
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 January 2008@17:25:34.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetic) on 30 January 2008@03:26:39.
David Whitehead on 6 November 2012@04:24:13.
David Whitehead on 22 February 2016@07:50:13.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keyword) on 25 March 2022@22:31:56.
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