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Headword: *)/olph
Adler number: omicron,208
Translated headword: oil-flask
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A lekythos.[1] In effect being a sort of e)laio/ph,[2] because of the oil [e)/laion] being monitored [o)pipeu/esqai] through it.[3]
"Since this is your birthday, [son of Simon], Krinagoras sends me with a happy heart as a present to the house of a very dear comrade: an oil-flask of bronze, but just like silver, made in India."[4]
Greek Original:
*)/olph: h( lh/kuqos. oi(onei\ e)laio/ph tis ou)=sa, dia\ to\ di' au)th=s o)pipeu/esqai to\ e)/laion. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: xa/lkeon a)rgure/w| me panei/kelon, *)indiko\n e)/rgon, o)/lphn h(di/stou cei/nion ei)s e(ta/rou, h)=mar e)pei\ to/de sei=o gene/qlion, pe/mpei ghqome/nh| su\n freni\ *krinago/rhs.
Notes:
According to LSJ s.v., the olpe is an oil-flask made of leather -- but not in the instance illustrated here, evidently.
For the headword, see also under epsilon 3944.
[1] Similarly in scholia on Theocritus and Nicander; and cf. generally lambda 436, lambda 438, lambda 439.
[2] i.e. not so much olpe as oil-pe.
[3] Similarly in other lexica.
[4] Greek Anthology 6.261 (Crinagoras), the poet's gift to a friend's son; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (200-201) and vol. II (216). As Gow and Page note (vol. I, 201), here the Anthologia Palatina (AP) transmits ei)diko\n (specific, special), whereas Gow and Page (ibid.) and the Suda follow the AP scribe designated C (the Corrector) in reading *)indiko\n. (Indian, from India, made in India).
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 December 2009@08:12:13.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 6 December 2009@17:41:28.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 7 December 2009@02:58:39.
David Whitehead on 24 June 2013@09:54:15.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 3 January 2021@00:47:22.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4, added bibliography, added keyword) on 13 September 2022@14:18:51.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 13 September 2022@18:29:12.

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