Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι
Adonis' gardens
Translated by Jennifer Benedict16 Mar 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι· ἐκ θριδάκων καὶ μαράθρων, ἅπερ κατέσπειρον ἐν ὀστράκοις. χρῶνται δ' ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπιπολαίων καὶ κούφων τῇ παροιμίᾳ. Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι· ἐπὶ τῶν ἀώρων καὶ ὀλιγοχρονίων καὶ μὴ ἐρριζωμένων.
Betacode
*)adw/nidos kh=poi: e)k qrida/kwn kai\ mara/qrwn, a(/per kate/speiron e)n o)stra/kois. xrw=ntai d' e)pi\ tw=n e)pipolai/wn kai\ kou/fwn th=| paroimi/a|. *)adw/nidos kh=poi: e)pi\ tw=n a)w/rwn kai\ o)ligoxroni/wn kai\ mh\ e)rrizwme/nwn.
Notes (2)
- See already alpha 514 (and under alpha 515), and again alpha 807.↩
For the Adonis festival (celebrated by women in Athens and elsewhere) which lies behind this entry, see in brief W. Burkert, Greek Religion (Harvard UP) 177; OCD(4) p.12.- 1Similar material in Photius and Hesychius. ↩
- 2From the scholia to Plato, Phaedrus 276B; cf. Diogenianus 1.14.
References
Marcel Detienne, The Gardens of Adonis (1977; edn.2, 1994)
Linked from5 entries
- α512ἈδωναΐAdonai, my lordIn Hebrew.
- 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."
- α807Ἀκαρπότερος Ἀδώνιδος κήπουmore barren than a garden of Adonis[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those unable to give birth to anything productive. Things grown in pots are described [in these terms].
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Revision history6 revisions · last 30 Jul 2014
- updated a ref — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added italics and keyword — Catharine Roth
- modified translation; added note, bibliography, keywords — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Jennifer Benedict