Ἀδωνία
Adonia, Adonis-mourning
Translated by Jennifer Benedict20 Mar 2001Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
With a short vowel [sc. in the penultimate syllable]. "We hold the Adonia and we weep for Adonis." Pherecrates [sc. writes this].1 They also call the image of Adonis, in this way, an Adonion.
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] Adonideian crop,2 [meaning] that of Adonis.
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] Adonideian crop,2 [meaning] that of Adonis.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀδωνία· συνεσταλμένως. Ἀδωνίαν ἄγομεν καὶ τὸν Ἄδωνιν κλάομεν. Φερεκράτης. καλοῦσι δὲ καὶ τὸ εἴδωλον τοῦ Ἀδώνιδος οὕτως Ἀδώνιον. καὶ Ἀδωνίδειος καρπὸς, τοῦ Ἀδώνιδος.
Betacode
*)adwni/a: sunestalme/nws. *)adwni/an a)/gomen kai\ to\n *)/adwnin kla/omen. *ferekra/ths. kalou=si de\ kai\ to\ ei)/dwlon tou= *)adw/nidos ou(/tws *)adw/nion. kai\ *)adwni/deios karpo\s, tou= *)adw/nidos.
Notes (2)
- Photius, Lexicon alpha400 has a superior version of the first part of this entry: there the headword is↩
*)adw/nia , not the Suda's*)adwni/a , and this is reflected in the more accurate quotation of Pherecrates. See also Photius' alpha401, which confirms the sense of the initial gloss here.- 1Pherecrates fr. 170 Kock, now 181 K.-A. ↩
- 2See alpha 514 and the note there.
Linked from4 entries
- α513ἈδωναῖοςAdonaios[Meaning] below the grave [Hades].
- α514Ἀδώνειοι καρποίAdonis' crops; crops of AdonisRaised gardens are called [this].
- α516Ἄδωνις ἈδώνιδοςAdonis, [genitive] AdonidosA proper name. "And there was holy grief, such as that for Adonis on Libanos and [sc. in] Byblos."
- α517Ἀδώνιδος κῆποιAdonis' gardens[Made] out of lettuce and fennel, which they used to sow in earthenware pots. They apply the proverb to the superficial and shallow. Adonis' gardens: in reference to things that are untimely and transitory and have not…
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Revision history4 revisions · last 15 May 2018
- tweaked betacode — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- modified beginning of tr; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified headword and translation; augmented notes; added keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict