Ἀγρότας
countrymen, rurals
Translated by Anne Mahoney · 28 Aug 1998 · Vetting: high · 10 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] rustics.1
Also [sc. attested is the nominative singular]a)gro/ths ["countryman"], [meaning] he who lives in the country.
"But you were bent over like a drunken countryman."2 And in the Epigrams: "the three kinsmen dedicated these nets, o rural Pan, each from a different hunt."3 But the feminine form [is]a)gro/tis . In the Epigrams: "Teucer the Arab dedicated a lion's skin and his own rustic spear."4
Also [sc. attested is the nominative singular]
"But you were bent over like a drunken countryman."2 And in the Epigrams: "the three kinsmen dedicated these nets, o rural Pan, each from a different hunt."3 But the feminine form [is]
Greek original
Ἀγρότας· ἀγροίκους. καὶ Ἀγρότης· ὁ ἐν ἀγρῷ διαιτώμενος. ἀλλ' ὡς πάροινος ἀγρότης ἀνεκλίθης. καὶ ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· οἱ τρισσοί τοι ταῦτα τὰ δίκτυα θῆκαν ὅμαιμοι ἀγρότα Πὰν, ἄλλος ἄλλης ἀπ' ἀγρεσίης. θηλυκὸν δὲ Ἀγρότις. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· ἄνθετο δέρμα λέοντος Τεῦκρος Ἄραψ, καὐτὴν ἀγρότιν αἰγανέαν.
Betacode
*)agro/tas: a)groi/kous. kai\ *)agro/ths: o( e)n a)grw=| diaitw/menos. a)ll' w(s pa/roinos a)gro/ths a)nekli/qhs. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: oi( trissoi/ toi tau=ta ta\ di/ktua qh=kan o(/maimoi a)gro/ta *pa\n, a)/llos a)/llhs a)p' a)gresi/hs. qhluko\n de\ *)agro/tis. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)/nqeto de/rma le/ontos *teu=kros *)/aray, kau)th\n a)gro/tin ai)gane/an.
Notes (4)
- The headword is a masculine noun in the accusative plural, evidently quoted from somewhere. Here, the first two quotations provide, respectively, instances of the nominative singular and of the genitive singular (the latter in Ionic and epic form).↩
- 1Same glossing in other lexica; references at Photius alpha271 Theodoridis. ↩
- 2From beta 457. ↩
- 3Greek Anthology 6.13.1-2 (Leonidas of Tarentum), already at alpha 347 and (in part) at omicron 234; a fowler, a hunter, and a fisherman dedicate nets to Pan; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (122) and vol. II (356). ↩
- 4Greek Anthology 6.57.3-4 (Paul the Silentiary); cf. alphaiota 18 and kappa 1144.
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 from (3)
Neighbours in Adler order
Revisions (10)
- Catharine Rothexpanded note 4
- Ronald Allenexpanded primary note, expanded and rearranged n.3, added bibliography
- David Whiteheadmy typo
- David Whitehead
- David Whiteheadaugmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics
- Catharine Rothtweaks, cosmetics, cross-reference
- David Whiteheadanother keyword
- David Whiteheadaugmented notes; added keywords; cosmetics
- Anne Mahoneytranslated