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Headword: *lwto/s
Adler number: lambda,742
Translated headword: lotus, lotos
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A sweet-smelling plant; [the one] which some call 'myrrh-lotus.'[1]
Also [sc. attested is] 'lotuses', [meaning] pipes particular to the wedding chamber. "Lotuses were sounding, and the doors of the wedding chamber were rattling." In the Epigrams.[2]
And elsewhere: "and twin horn-sounding lotuses, to which he once wailed in accompaniment, whirling his neck."[3]
And elsewhere: "for recently the evening's lotuses were sounding at the double-doors of the bride."[4]
And elsewhere: "recently the sweet lotus was resounding in the chamber of Nikippis, and the hymn was delighting in the matrimonial applause."[5]
Greek Original:
*lwto/s: bota/nh eu)w/dhs: h(\n e)/nioi muro/lwton kalou=si. kai\ *lwtoi/, e)piqala/mioi/ tines au)loi/. lwtoi\ a)/xeun, kai\ qala/mwn e)platageu=nto qu/rai. e)n *)epigra/mmasi. kai\ au)=qis: didu/mous te lwtou\s kerwbo/as, e)f' oi(=s pote e)pwlo/lucen au)xe/na strobili/sas. kai\ au)=qis: a)/rti ga\r e(spe/rioi nu/mfas e)pi\ dikli/sin a)/xeun lwtoi/. kai\ au)=qis: a)/rti me\n e)n qala/mois *nikippi/dos h(du\s e)ph/xei lwto/s, kai\ gamikoi=s u(/mnos e)/xaire kro/tois.
Notes:
[1] = Synagoge, Photius lambda506 Theodoridis (with other references). From commentary on Homer, Odyssey 9.84, in reference to the Lotus-eaters encountered by Odysseus; cf. the scholia thereto. The term was used of a wide variety of different plants: see LSJ s.v.
[2] An approximation of Greek Anthology 7.182.3-4 (Meleager [Author, Myth]), which is quoted more precisely in the third quotation; see n. 4 below. Presumably the musical instrument in question was so called because it was made from a stalk of one of the plants called lotus, although in the second quotation below an instrument made of horn seems to be referred to. (See generally West 113; and note that, despite the Suda's glossing term auloi, they seem to have been reedless pipes broadly comparable to present-day flutes.)
[3] Greek Anthology 6.94.3 (Philip of Thessalonike), where the word rendered as 'horn-sounding' is spelled kerobo/as, not the Suda's unmetrical kerwbo/as. On this epigram, a dedication to Rhea by one of her retiring priests, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 306-307); (vol. II, 340); and its further extracts at kappa 2680, sigma 16, and tau 1166.
[4] Greek Anthology 7.182.3 (Meleager); see note 2 above. Also see another excerpt from this epigram at pi 1412.
[5] Greek Anthology 7.186.1-2 (Philip of Thessalonike). See further extracts from this epigram, in which Nikippis dies on her wedding day, at epsilon 548 and kappa 2258.
References:
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992)
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)
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Translated by: William Hutton on 29 June 2009@01:08:20.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented n.2, with bibliography; tweaks and cosmetics) on 29 June 2009@03:36:28.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 22 April 2013@08:11:23.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.4) on 16 September 2022@12:01:36.
Ronald Allen (augmented n.5, added cross-references) on 10 January 2023@11:05:16.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added to bibliography, added cross-references) on 11 January 2023@17:04:54.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 12 January 2023@00:39:40.

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