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Headword: *gla/gos
Adler number: gamma,276
Translated headword: milk
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[gla/gos means the same as] ga/la.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] glagerw=n ["of milk-white (ones)"], meaning of white [ones]. In the Epigrams: "and a springe-net of [= for] milk-white cranes."[2]
Greek Original:
*gla/gos: ga/la. kai\ *glagerw=n, a)nti\ tou= leukw=n. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)/rkun te glagerw=n laimope/dan gera/nwn.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon. From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.471 [= 16.643], where the headword occurs.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.109.8 (where in fact the adjective is klagerw=n, "screeching"). On this epigram, an Arcadian hunter's dedication to Pan, see Gow and Page vol. I (44-45), vol. II (63-65), and another excerpt from this epigram at alpha 1758. As Gow and Page note (vol. I, 45), the Suda follows the Anthologia Palatina (AP) and the Anthologia Planudea in transmitting glagerw=n, but they follow the emendation given by the AP scribe designated C (the Corrector) in reading klagerw=n (ibid.). The LSJ s.v. ge/ranos (web address 1) identifies the fowler's screeching gamebird as the Common Crane, Grus cinerea (grus), a common spring and fall migrant through Greece. The Common Crane is not milk-white, however, but slate-gray in color; the Corrector's emendation is very well motivated if not certain; cf. Gow and Page, vol. II (65) and Thompson (41). On the identity of the epigram's author, see alpha 1758 note.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
D.W. Thompson, A Glossary of Greek Birds (Oxford, 1895)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; epic; food; imagery; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 July 2002@18:45:55.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords) on 14 July 2002@06:26:22.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; betacode and other cosmetics) on 7 June 2012@08:53:55.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 9 September 2012@18:26:07.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 10 April 2015@00:02:10.
David Whitehead on 28 September 2015@04:09:53.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keywords) on 29 May 2022@15:36:38.
Ronald Allen (further expanded n.2, added to bibliography, added link) on 29 May 2022@16:44:16.

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