Ἀμύξεις
you will scratch, you will tear
Translated by Jennifer Benedict18 Oct 2000Vetting: high11 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] you will grieve, you will wound, you will strike.1
And [there is] a proverb: "not even a thorn scratches good men."2
Also [sc. attested is the singular]a)/mucis ["a scratching"], [meaning] a tearing, a rending, a scraping.
Fora)mu/ssw [derives] from ai(=ma ["blood"], [whence] ai(mu/ssw , and a)mu/ssw .
"Foam-born [Aphrodite] tore at her lovely face."3 Meaning mangled, scraped.4
And in the Epigrams: "stand and watch, but you tear your heart in vain."5
And [there is] a proverb: "not even a thorn scratches good men."2
Also [sc. attested is the singular]
For
"Foam-born [Aphrodite] tore at her lovely face."3 Meaning mangled, scraped.4
And in the Epigrams: "stand and watch, but you tear your heart in vain."5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀμύξεις· λυπήσεις, τρώσεις. πλήξεις. καὶ παροιμία· Μήδ' ἄκανθα ἀμύξῃ τοὺς ἀγαθούς. καὶ Ἄμυξις· ἀμυχή, σπάραξις, ξέσις. Ἀμύσσω γὰρ παρὰ τὸ αἷμα, αἱμύσσω, καὶ ἀμύσσω. ἧς ἔπι καλὸν ἄμυξε καταρρέθος Ἀφρογένεια. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐσπάραξεν, ἔξεσε. καὶ ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· ἵστασο καὶ σκοπίαζε, μάτην δὲ σὸν ἦτορ ἀμύσσου.
Betacode
*)amu/ceis: luph/seis, trw/seis. plh/ceis. kai\ paroimi/a: *mh/d' a)/kanqa a)mu/ch| tou\s a)gaqou/s. kai\ *)/amucis: a)muxh/, spa/racis, ce/sis. *)amu/ssw ga\r para\ to\ ai(=ma, ai(mu/ssw, kai\ a)mu/ssw. h(=s e)/pi kalo\n a)/muce katarre/qos *)afroge/neia. a)nti\ tou= e)spa/racen, e)/cese. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: i(/staso kai\ skopi/aze, ma/thn de\ so\n h)=tor a)mu/ssou.
Notes (5)
- See also alpha 1685, eta 365.↩
- 1cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.243, where the headword occurs. ↩
- 2Diogenianus 6.69; cf. mu 865. ↩
- 3Greek Anthology 7.218.11 (Antipater of Sidon), epitaph for the famous Corinthian courtesan Lais; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 19) and (vol. II, 52-3). Here the Suda has quoted imperfectly:
katarre/qos is also given askata\ r(e/qos ; cf. kappa 751 and Gow and Page, vol. I, 19. See this epigram's further extracts at alpha 1219, delta 1519, theta 519, theta 588, kappa 1525, kappa 2628, lambda 789, omicron 51, pi 1457, and pi 1903. On Lais, see lambda 40, nu 16, and names of other Corinthian hetaeras--akin in practice to modern geishas--at epsilon 3266. ↩- 4cf. epsilon 1064. ↩
- 5Greek Anthology 5.262.5 (Paul the Silentiary), the poet's love interest is guarded by a strict nurse. Find another extract from this epigram at pi 1947.
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)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1965)
Linked from4 entries
- α1219Ἁλιζώνουof sea-girt[Meaning of somewhere] girded around by sea. "I hold Lais, citizen-ess of sea-girt Corinth."
- α1685Ἀμύσσεινto mangle[Meaning] to agitate, to lacerate, to scrape, to tear at. "Now mangling his cheeks with his talons, now pecking his eyes with his beak." "When he came out of his own division, a raven sat on the man's right arm, facing…
- α1688ἈμυχήscratchA superficial wound.
- δ1519Δρέπεταιharvests, is being harvested[Meaning he/she/it] reaps/is being reaped, gathers/is being gathered, plucks from flowers/is being plucked from flowers. "For whom more noble suitors than for the bride, [sc. Helen] daughter of Tyndareus, gathering…
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Revision history11 revisions · last 6 Aug 2023
- expanded n.5, added cross-reference — Ronald Allen
- added further cross-references n.3 — Ronald Allen
- expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword — Ronald Allen
- tweaked notes — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added betacode — Catharine Roth
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict