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Headword:
*(umnopo/los
Adler number: upsilon,118
Translated headword: minstrel
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] someone occupied with hymns.
"Of minstrels [there are] many mothers."[1] [This is said] about
Alcman the lyric poet.[2]
*(umnopo/los: o( peri\ tou\s u(/mnous a)nastrefo/menos. pollai\ mhte/res u(mnopo/lwn. peri\ *)alkma=nos tou= lurikou=.
Notes:
cf. the
scholia to
Nicander,
Alexipharmaca 629, for a similar gloss on the noun
u(mnopo/los.
[1]
Greek Anthology 7.18.6 (Antipater of Thessalonica), an epitaph for
Alcman; cf.
lambda 784. On this epigram, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 20-21); (vol. II, 30-31); and further extracts at
epsilon 750,
epsiloniota 33,
lambda 620, and
lambda 850.
[2]
alpha 1289,
alpha 1290.
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)
Keywords: biography; definition; meter and music; poetry; women
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 25 June 2007@17:56:18.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 26 June 2007@03:22:48.
David Whitehead on 20 November 2013@06:29:04.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 29 April 2022@13:18:46.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation in consultation with Managing Editor Catharine Roth) on 29 April 2022@18:17:36.
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