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Headword: *gamyo/n
Adler number: gamma,54
Translated headword: crooked
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning something that is] bending/bent.
"And a crooked fish-hook bound to horse hairs, a hidden snare for fishes."[1] In the Epigrams: "and a crooked sickle, corn-cutting tool of the field."[2] And again: "curved grain-reaping sickles."[3]
Greek Original:
*gamyo/n: e)pikampe/s. kai\ gamyo\n xai/th|sin e)f' i(ppei/h|si pedhqe\n a)/gkistron, krufi/hn ei)nali/oisi pa/ghn. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: gamyo/n te dre/panon, staxuhto/mon o(/plon a)rou/rhs. kai\ au)=qis: gamya\s purolo/gous drepa/nas.
Notes:
Neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, with the same glossing in Hesychius; evidently quoted from somewhere (not necessarily the first or second of the three quotations given here).
cf. generally gamma 52, gamma 53, gamma 55.
[1] Greek Anthology 6.192.3-4 (Archias), a retiring fisherman dedicates fishing gear to Priapus; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 404-407); (vol. II, 438-439); and further excerpts from this epigram at beta 365, iota 68, tau 1014, and phi 192.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.95.3 (Antiphilus), a plowman's dedication to Demeter; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 100-101); (vol. II, 126-127); and this epigram's further excerpts at theta 498, mu 1430, pi 1535, and pi 1842. The dre/panon might be the long, heavy scythe, an ancient weapon of war, as in Xenophon Cyropedia 6.1.30 (web address 1). But in the epigram's agricultural context, this tool was almost certainly the smaller, lighter sickle, held in one hand for cutting corn; cf. Gow and Page vol. I (101) and Blümner (493).
[3] Greek Anthology 6.104.2 (Philip). On this epigram, an elaboration upon Greek Anthology 6.95 (cf. previous note), see Gow and Page (vol. I, 310-311); (vol. II, 343); and its further extracts at alpha 4721, beta 455, tau 994, upsilon 120, omega 69, and omega 81.
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)
H. Blümner, The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks, (London, 1895)
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Keywords: agriculture; botany; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; military affairs; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 June 2002@12:34:09.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 19 June 2002@04:36:02.
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Catharine Roth (coding) on 22 August 2012@00:02:37.
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Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 20 June 2022@18:02:22.
Catharine Roth (tweaked notes 1 and 3) on 21 June 2022@00:39:55.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after consultation with Managing Editor Catharine Roth) on 24 June 2022@16:39:21.
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