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Βώτορες · pasturers (β 507) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

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β503to cry for
β504Botion, Botium
β505botein
β506man-feeding
β507pasturers
β508Bochanos, Bochanus
β509awards
β510umpire, adjudicator
β511umpires

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Βώτορες

pasturers

Translated by William Hutton24 Oct 2002Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 41 words

Translation

[Meaning] shouters,¹ herdsmen.
Also 'bestowers'.²
In the Epigrams: "the one that was destroying the pasturage and the folds of cattle and the pasturer men, and who trembled not at the clamor of dogs ... he slew and hung from this pine."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Βώτορες· βοήτορες, νομεῖς. καὶ δώτορες. ἐν Ἐπιγράμ- μασι· τὸν νομίην καὶ ἔπαυλα βοῶν καὶ βώτορας ἄνδρας σινόμενον κλαγγάν τ' οὐχὶ τρέσαντα κυνῶν πέφνε καὶ ἐκ ταύτας ἐκρέμασε πίτυος.

Betacode

*bw/tores: boh/tores, nomei=s. kai\ dw/tores. e)n *)epigra/m-  masi: to\n nomi/hn kai\ e)/paula bow=n kai\ bw/toras a)/ndras sino/menon klagga/n t' ou)xi\ tre/santa kunw=n pe/fne kai\ e)k tau/tas e)kre/mase pi/tuos.

Notes (2)

[1] Perhaps instead of boh/tores ('shouters') -- obelized by Theodoridis in Photius s.v. -- this gloss should be both=res ('pasturers') or boskh/tores (as in the Etymologicum Genuinum, championed by Dindorf); however, it might be an attempt at an etymology for the headword.
2This phrase, kai\ dw/tores, occurs only in a minority of the manuscripts, Adler reports, and may be included in them simply for the noun's similarity in form with the headword; cf. delta 1486 (where Doter is a proper name). ↩
3Greek Anthology 6.262.1-2, 4 (Leonidas of Tarentum), a cattleman dedicates spoils from a marauding animal; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 122-123) and (vol. II, 357). Gow and Page suggest (ibid.) that the dedication is probably to Pan and that the predatory animal in question, not named by the epigrammatist, is almost certainly a wolf.

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)

Linked from1 entry

δ1486ΒώτωρDotor, GiverA proper name. Also [sc. attested is] bw/twr ["herdsman"].

Neighbouring entries

β505Βωτεῖνbotein β506Βωτιάνειραman-feeding β507Βώτορεςpasturers β508ΒώχανοςBochanos, Bochanus β509Βραβεύειawards

Revision history5 revisions · last 7 Apr 2021

7 Apr 2021expanded n.3, added bibliography, added keyword — Ronald Allen
23 Sep 2015coding and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
3 Jun 2012expanded note — David Whitehead
26 Oct 2002augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
24 Oct 2002augmented notes — Catharine Roth
24 Oct 2002Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Βώτορες (Adler number beta 507), trans. William Hutton, 24 Oct 2002. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/beta/507

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 ↗