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Αἴλινον · ailinon, dirge, dirge-like (αι 180) · Suda

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Near αι180

αι176the additions of herbs
αι177Ailia, Aelia
αι178Aelian, Aelianus, Ailianos
αι179Aelian, Aelianus, Ailianos
αι180ailinon, dirge, dirge-like
αι181mournful, plaintive
αι182ailinos-like
αι183Aelius Hadrianus, Hadrian, Adrianos
αι184Aelius, Ailios

Suda/ΑΙ alphaiota/αι180

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Αἴλινον

ailinon, dirge, dirge-like

Translated by William Hutton17 Mar 2003Vetting: high7 revisions

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2 notes · 25 words

Translation

[Meaning a] type of lament and song.¹
"This dirge-like inscription of Diodoran wisdom says that I have been struck for a short-fated woman in labor."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Αἴλινον· εἶδος θρήνου καὶ ᾠδῆς. [αἴλινον] ὠκυμόρῳ με λεχωίδι τοῦτο κεκόφθαι τῆς Διοδωρείου γράμμα λέγει σοφίης.

Betacode

*ai)/linon: ei)=dos qrh/nou kai\ w)|dh=s. [ai)/linon] w)kumo/rw| me lexwi/di tou=to keko/fqai th=s *diodwrei/ou gra/mma le/gei sofi/hs.

Notes (2)

See also alphaiota 181, alphaiota 182
1Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon and cf. the scholia to Sophocles, Ajax 627, where the headword occurs. Also attested in Aeschylus (Agamemnon 121) and Euripides (Orestes 1395). See also Pausanias 9.29.6-9, and lambda 570. ↩
2Greek Anthology 6.348.1-2 (Diodorus). The Suda mss actually omit the headword adjective from the quotation; Küster (Ludolf Küster, Westphalian classical scholar, 1670-1716) had to supply it. On this epigram, an epitaph for a woman who died in childbirth, see Gow and Page vol. I (242-243) and vol. II (274-275).

References

A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)

Linked from3 entries

αι181Αἴλινονmournful, plaintiveIt is [used] equally to refer to a dirge and to refer to a hymn; [named] from Ailinos the [son] of Kalliope.
αι182Αἴλινοςailinos-like[Meaning] mournful, dirge-like. "The ailinos-like sound did not soften your audacity."
ε858ἘλινιῶI dirge[Meaning] I sing.

Neighbouring entries

αι178ΑἰλιανόςAelian, Aelianus, Ailianos αι179ΑἰλιανόςAelian, Aelianus, Ailianos αι180Αἴλινονailinon, dirge, dirge-like αι181Αἴλινονmournful, plaintive αι182Αἴλινοςailinos-like

Revision history7 revisions · last 23 Sep 2022

23 Sep 2022expanded n.2, added bibliography — Ronald Allen
19 Mar 2015expanded both of the notes — David Whitehead
21 May 2012coding — Catharine Roth
14 May 2012 — David Whitehead
18 Mar 2003augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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17 Mar 2003Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Αἴλινον (Adler number alphaiota 180), trans. William Hutton, 17 Mar 2003. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alphaiota/180

Translation by William Hutton for Suda On Line, revised by Ronald Allen, David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗