In the
Epigrams: "Kynthos' children, fear not, for the bow of the Cretan Echemmas lies in Ortygia with Artemis."[1]
Also [sc. attested is] 'Kynthian': "holding the Kynthian high-horned crag."
Aristophanes in
Clouds [sc. says this].[2]
*kunqia/des: e)n *)epigra/mmasi: *kunqia/des qarsei=te, ta\ ga\r tou= *krhto\s *)exe/mma kei=tai e)n *)ortugi/h| to/ca par' *)arte/midi. kai\ *kunqi/an: *kunqi/an e)/xwn u(yike/rata pe/tran. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais.
Illustrated here are two words (the headword and a second lemma) related to Mount Kynthos (Cynthus), the main peak on the island of
Delos; cf. Barrington Atlas map 61 grid A3.
[1]
Callimachus,
Epigram 62.1-2 Pfeiffer (=
Greek Anthology 6.121.1-2). "Kynthos' children" could have meant Apollo and Artemis, since they were said to have been born on Mt. Kynthos. But here, as we learn in the last line of the poem, it refers to goats inhabiting the mountain that Echemmas (otherwise unknown; presumably a hunter if not a figment of
Callimachus' imagination) had been shooting with his bow.
Callimachus is also responsible for the only other surviving non-lexicographical appearance of the headword,
Hymn to Apollo 61, where it also refers to Delian goats.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 596-7 (web address 1), describing Apollo; cf.
upsilon 757. The phrase 'high-horned crag', according to
Etymologicum Magnum 504.4, is
Pindar's (fr.325).
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