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Headword: *podh/nemos
Adler number: pi,1845
Translated headword: windswift
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning she who is] quick.[1]
"Sing, stranger, this sepulchre of a windswift gull."[2]

Greek Original:

*podh/nemos: h( taxei=a. ai)qui/hs, ce/ne, to/nde podhne/mou e)/nnepe tu/mbon.

Notes:

[1] The gloss shows that the headword is here feminine. This might be generated by the quotation given, but more probably by Homeric scholia on this headword as the Iliad's standard epithet for Iris.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.212.1 (Mnasalces), an epitaph for a swift mare named Seagull; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 143) and (vol. II, 407).

References:

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: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; mythology; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 5 November 2002@22:14:08.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 6 November 2002@03:49:33.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 16 May 2011@04:23:30.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 20 October 2011@08:12:31.
David Whitehead on 7 October 2013@07:14:09.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 1 July 2014@00:04:39.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 25 September 2021@18:25:32.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography) on 5 January 2022@21:06:09.

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