Ἀγύρτης
mendicant
Translated by Anne Mahoney27 Mar 1999Vetting: high11 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] beggar,1 mountebank.
One who asks for more, greedy.2
Or a vulgar person. And it is also a throw with dice3 and a Gallus4 and a seer, as Apion [says].
In the Epigrams: "a certain beggar-priest of the Mother who had severed a genital vein".5
And elsewhere: "a deceitful beggar, who looked only for profit".6
And elsewhere: "for he was in fact a seer and enamoured of omens".7
One who asks for more, greedy.2
Or a vulgar person. And it is also a throw with dice3 and a Gallus4 and a seer, as Apion [says].
In the Epigrams: "a certain beggar-priest of the Mother who had severed a genital vein".5
And elsewhere: "a deceitful beggar, who looked only for profit".6
And elsewhere: "for he was in fact a seer and enamoured of omens".7
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀγύρτης· πτωχὸς, ὀχλαγωγός. ἐπαίτης, φιλοκερδής. ἢ συρφετώδης. ἔστι δὲ καὶ βόλος κυβευτικὸς καὶ Γάλλος καὶ μάντις, ὡς Ἀπίων. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· κειράμενος γονίμην τις ἀπὸ φλέβα Μητρὸς ἀγύρτης. καὶ αὖθις· δόλιον ἀγύρτην, ὃς ἐν τοῖς κέρδεσι μόνον δέδορκε. καὶ αὖθις· ἦν γὰρ αὐτὸς ἀγύρτης τῷ ὄντι καὶ φιλομαντευτής.
Betacode
*)agu/rths: ptwxo\s, o)xlagwgo/s. e)pai/ths, filokerdh/s. h)\ surfetw/dhs. e)/sti de\ kai\ bo/los kubeutiko\s kai\ *ga/llos kai\ ma/ntis, w(s *)api/wn. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: keira/menos goni/mhn tis a)po\ fle/ba *mhtro\s a)gu/rths. kai\ au)=qis: do/lion a)gu/rthn, o(\s e)n toi=s ke/rdesi mo/non de/dorke. kai\ au)=qis: h)=n ga\r au)to\s a)gu/rths tw=| o)/nti kai\ filomanteuth/s.
Notes (7)
- See also alpha 389 (and cf. already alpha 387).↩
- 1From the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 388, where the accusative case of the headword occurs; quoted below. ↩
- 2Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius alpha280 Theodoridis. ↩
- 3cf. beta 369. ↩
- 4A priest of Cybele (Kybele, a Phrygian goddess, equivalent to the Minoan goddess Rhea, cf. kappa 2586). ↩
- 5Greek Anthology 6.218.1 (Alcaeus), the dedication of a eunuch priest of Cybele who escaped from a lion by beating his timbrels; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (9) and vol. II (24-26) and further extracts from this epigram at gamma 158, theta 526, pi 952, pi 2954, tau 316, and omega 89. ↩
- 6Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 388-9 (Oedipus on Teiresias). ↩
- 7'Dam.', says Adler's note (= Damascius fr. 212 Zintzen); cf. alpha 389.
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
- α387Ἀγυρτείαmendicancy"An interaction, of the kind that he sought, emboldened toward a certain mendicancy."
- α389Ἀγύρτηςmendicant[Meaning] a charlatan and a cheat. To collect [money] and make a collection [of it], to go around and wander around boasting about a victory or something else of the sort. The agyrtes is also the name of a throw at…
- αι64Αἴγληradiance; Aigle[Meaning] a throw at dice, brilliance, gleam. Cratinus [sc. uses the word]. And [sc. in so doing] he reveals [that it is] a type of round sacrificial cake, and rite of sacrifice, as Leagoras says. It is also a child's…
- β369Βόλοςthrow (of dice)The dice [throw] is called beggar. Look up under 'agyrtes'.
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Revision history11 revisions · last 6 Dec 2018
- expanded n.4 and n.5, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
- (spelling) expanded n.5 — Ronald Allen
- exanded n.5, added bibliography, added keywords — Ronald Allen
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- coding — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes; another keyword; tweaks — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Anne Mahoney