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Headword:
*oi)/nopi
Adler number: omicroniota,139
Translated headword: wine-dark
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [oi)/noy, genitive] oi)/nopos.
"To wine-dark [so-and-so]", [meaning] to dark/black [so-and-so].[1] In the Epigrams: "from which we poured libations, as much [as is] right, to wine-dark Bacchus and the Satyrs."[2]
But "ruddy" [oi)nwpo/s] [means] wine-coloured, bright; or darks/black.
"Feeding on the ruddy grape-cluster of Bacchus."[3]
Greek Original:*oi)=noy, oi)/nopos. *oi)/nopi, me/lani: e)n *)epigra/mmasi: w(=n h(mei=s spei/santes, o(/son qe/mis, oi)/nopi *ba/kxw| kai\ *satu/rois. *oi)nwpo\s de\ oi)nw/dhs, diaugh/s: h)\ me/lanos. *oi)nwpo\n *ba/kxou bo/trun e)repto/menos.
Notes:
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 13.703, where a form of the headword appears (though not in the familiar Homeric epithet "wine-dark sea").
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.44.5-6 (attributed by some to
Leonidas of
Tarentum), on Heronax's libations to Satyrs and Dionysus after first vintages from new vineyards; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 137), (vol. II, 391-392), and other extracts from this epigram at
delta 1490 and
kappa 24. On this epigram's uncertain attribution to
Leonidas, see
kappa 24 note.
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.20.2 (
Simonides), on the death of
Sophocles. Behind this epigram is a mid-C3 BCE tale of
Sophocles having died by choking on a grape; cf. Page (277) and
Sotades fragment 11.14 in Diehl (291).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
E. Diehl, ed., Anthologia Lyrica Graeca, vol. II, (Leipzig 1925)
Keywords: agriculture; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; imagery; mythology; poetry; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 June 2004@15:21:24.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation and notes; augmented keywords; betacoding and other cosmetics) on 9 June 2004@04:17:08.
David Whitehead on 7 August 2013@07:51:10.
David Whitehead (codings) on 29 May 2016@09:08:50.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3; expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 29 January 2021@11:55:43.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added to bibliography, added keyword) on 3 July 2023@11:14:08.
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