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Headword:
*ge/nusi
Adler number: gamma,158
Translated headword: with jaws
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] with cheeks.[1]
In the Epigrams: "and [the lion] closed his bloody jaw, and as if possessed whirled his spinning mane about his neck."[2]
Greek Original:*ge/nusi: siago/sin. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: xw) me\n e)ne/kleisen foni/an ge/nun, e)k de\ teno/ntwn e)/nqous r(ombhth\n e)strofa/lize fo/bhn.
Notes:
cf.
gamma 156,
gamma 157.
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 11.416, where the dative plural headword occurs (in a simile about hunting-dogs).
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.218.7-8 (
Alcaeus), the dedication of a eunuch priest of Cybele (Kybele, cf.
kappa 2586) who escaped from a lion by beating his timbrels; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (9) and vol. II (24-26) and further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 388,
theta 526,
pi 952,
pi 2954,
tau 316, and
omega 89.
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; epic; gender and sexuality; imagery; medicine; meter and music; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 June 2002@15:59:42.
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