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Headword:
*peu=kai
Adler number: pi,1412
Translated headword: pine-[torches]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] lamps, torches. "The same torches were also carrying light for her bridal chamber, and revealing a way below as she perished."[1]
And [there is] a proverb: "in the manner of a pine," [used] in reference to those who perish utterly. Since a pine, once cut, no longer sends up a shoot.[2]
Greek Original:*peu=kai: lampa/des, da=|des. ai( d' au)tai\ kai\ fe/ggos e)da|dou/xoun peri\ pastw=| peu=kai, kai\ fqime/nh| ne/rqen e)/fainon o(do/n. kai\ paroimi/a: *peu/khs tro/pon, e)pi\ tw=n panwleqri/a| a)pollume/nwn. e)pei\ h( peu/kh kopei=sa ou)k a)ni/hsin e)/ti blasto/n.
Notes:
The headword, a nominative plural, is presumably extracted from the quotation given. For this sense of
peu/kh, see LSJ s.v., II.1.
[1]
Greek Anthology 7.182.7-8 (Meleager [
Author,
Myth]), a woman dies on her wedding night; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (250); vol. II (674-674); and another extract from this epigram at
lambda 742.
[2] cf.
Zenobius 5.76,
Diogenianus 7.49, and other paroemiographers.
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)
Keywords: botany; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; poetry; proverbs; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 February 2012@01:01:09.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 28 February 2012@03:27:12.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 1 October 2013@05:55:23.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 30 August 2021@22:57:03.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added keyword) on 16 September 2022@11:54:24.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-reference) on 16 September 2022@11:56:52.
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