Ἄποθεν
away, far from
Translated by Jennifer Benedict3 Mar 2001Vetting: high14 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] without, or from afar.1
"Stretching the well-twisted arms of my leathern sling, I, Alcimenes, kept the cloud of birds away."2
And elsewhere: "but Rufinus met him afterwards as he was returning not far from the city of Nisibis."3
Also [sc. attested is]a)/poqen ge/ poqen ["from somewhere afar"], [meaning] from some equinoctial part.4
"Stretching the well-twisted arms of my leathern sling, I, Alcimenes, kept the cloud of birds away."2
And elsewhere: "but Rufinus met him afterwards as he was returning not far from the city of Nisibis."3
Also [sc. attested is]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἄποθεν· χωρίς, ἢ πόρρωθεν. ῥινοῦ χερμαστῆρος ἐΰστροφα κῶλα τιταίνων Ἀλκιμένης πτανῶν εἶργον ἄποθε νέφος. καὶ αὖθις· Ῥουφῖνος δέ οἱ μεταξὺ ἐπανήκων ἐνέτυχε πόλεως Νισίβιδος οὐ μακρὰν ἄποθεν. καὶ Ἄποθέν γέ ποθεν, ἀπό τινος μέρους ἰσημέρου.
Betacode
*)/apoqen: xwri/s, h)\ po/rrwqen. r(inou= xermasth=ros e)u/+strofa kw=la titai/nwn *)alkime/nhs ptanw=n ei)=rgon a)/poqe ne/fos. kai\ au)=qis: *(roufi=nos de/ oi( metacu\ e)panh/kwn e)ne/tuxe po/lews *nisi/bidos ou) makra\n a)/poqen. kai\ *)/apoqe/n ge/ poqen, a)po/ tinos me/rous i)shme/rou.
Notes (3)
- [1] Same glossing in other lexica; and again at alpha 3664.↩
- 2Greek Anthology 7.172.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon), on one Alcimenes, snake-bitten while trying to drive birds away from his crops; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 18-19); (vol. II, 51-52); and more extracts from this epigram at beta 308, epsilon 1287, kappa 2231, omicron 971, rho 174, chi 207, and psi 75. ↩
- 3Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 1.22.9 (web address 1), again at alpha 3664; returning from Byzantion (cf. beta 588) in early 532 CE, Rufinus (cf. PLRE II s.v. Rufinus(13)), envoy from Justinian (iota 446), encounters the Persian army and king Chosroes (chi 418) outside of Nisibis (cf. nu 426); cf. Kaldellis (57) and additional background at alpha 3380. ↩
- 4From Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, where however (as Adler's apparatus notes) the first word is corrected to
a)mo/qen . This is evidently because the Platonic phrase deemed to have generated the entry (Gorgias 492D, Laws 798D) isa(mo/qen ge/ poqen , "from somewhere or other".
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)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, (Cambridge 1980)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, (Cambridge 1980)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α3380Ἀπολεγόμενοςdeclining (an offer)[Meaning he] refusing. Polybius [writes]: "he refused the Achaeans, declining the command." Also [sc. attested is the neuter plural active] a)pole/gonta, [meaning] forbidding, turning away. "And he wrote letters…
- α3664Ἄπωθενaway, away from[Meaning] without or far off. "Rufinus meanwhile came along and met him not far away from the city of Nisibis."
- β308ΒιστονίαBistonianEpithet of the crane. "Holding back the thievish high-flying Bistonian crane from the crop."
- χ207Χερμαστήρstone-slinger[Meaning] a sling. "Stretching the well-twisted arms of [my] leather stone-slinger."
Neighbouring entries
Revision history14 revisions · last 30 Dec 2023
- another cross-reference n.3 — Ronald Allen
- added cross-reference n.3 — Ronald Allen
- expanded n.3, added to bibliography, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
- expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword, added link — Ronald Allen
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- — David Whitehead
- coding — Catharine Roth
- another x-ref — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Modified translation, added note. — Catharine Roth
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- Translated — Jennifer Benedict