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Headword:
*qri/nac
Adler number: theta,498
Translated headword: trident
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the winnowing-fan.[1]
An agricultural tool furnished with teeth.[2]
"And the paliurus-wood trident, the hand of summer [...]."[3]
Greek Original:*qri/nac: to\ ptu/on. o)/rganon gewrgiko\n o)dontiko/n. kai\ paliouro/foron xei=ra qe/reus qri/naka.
Notes:
See
theta 499 for the headword as an uppercase toponym.
[1] cf.
Hesychius theta756.
[2] Likewise in
Photius (
Lexicon theta229 Theodoridis) and other lexica.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.95.4 (
Antiphilus), a retiring plowman dedicates his tools to Demeter; cf. Gow and Page vol. I (100-101); vol. II (126-127); and this epigram's further excerpts at
gamma 54,
mu 1430,
pi 1535, and
pi 1842. The
qri/nac was a three-pronged pitchfork used for tossing ears of threshed grain against the wind so as to separate off the dried husks; cf. Gow and Page vol. II (126) and Blümner (9-10).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
H. Blümner, Technologie und Terminologie der Gewerbe und Künste bei Griechen und Römern, vol. I, (Leipzig, 1875)
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Translated by: Ryan Stone on 1 March 2008@23:12:38.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (modified translation and notes, added keywords, set status) on 3 March 2008@01:11:31.
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