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Headword: *si/nis
Adler number: sigma,460
Translated headword: Sinis; plunderer
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a harmful robber.[1] "As you were sleeping, a plunderer set upon you stealthily and killed you, swiftly setting his fingernail on your throat."[2]
Greek Original:
*si/nis: o)/noma lh|stou= blaptikou=. h)= ga/r s' u(pnw/onta si/nis laqrhdo\n e)pelqw\n e)/kteinen, laimw=| r(i/mfa kaqei\s o)/nuxa.
Notes:
[1] Adler reports a similar ('cf.') entry in the Ambrosian Lexicon. As noted in LSJ and illustrated by the quotation given here, lower-case si/nis can indeed mean any plunderer/robber. However, the Sinis, the Pine-bender (LSJ s.v. II), was a notorious mythological robber operating near Corinth, killed by Theseus: see under theta 368 (with the spelling Sinnis).
[2] Greek Anthology 7.202.3-4 (Anyte), about a rooster, quoted already at rho 167; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 38), (vol. II, 97), and another extract from this epigram at epsilon 2933. Anyte does not identify the marauding animal, but see rho 167 n.2 for possibilities.
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: daily life; definition; ethics; mythology; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 September 2010@18:56:33.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented headword and n.1; another keyword) on 17 September 2010@03:28:11.
David Whitehead on 26 July 2011@05:43:22.
David Whitehead on 24 December 2013@08:51:01.
David Whitehead (coding) on 26 May 2016@03:26:48.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference) on 27 August 2021@19:08:29.

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