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Χερμαστήρ · stone-slinger (χ 207) · Suda

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χ203inferior men
χ204Cheres, Kheres
χ205hand-kneaded
χ206with a stone
χ207stone-slinger
χ208laboring-woman
χ209hand-bath
χ210hand-bath
χ211hand-bath

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Χερμαστήρ

stone-slinger

Translated by Jennifer Benedict19 Mar 2008Vetting: high6 revisions

agriculture
definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
military affairs
poetry
trade and manufacture
+1
- zoology

11 words

Translation

[Meaning] a sling.
"Stretching the well-twisted arms of [my] leather stone-slinger."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Χερμαστήρ· ἡ σφενδόνη. ῥινοῦ χερμαστῆρος ἐΰστροφα κῶλα τιταίνων.

Betacode

*xermasth/r: h( sfendo/nh. r(inou= xermasth=ros e)u/+strofa kw=la titai/nwn.

Notes

[1] Greek Anthology 7.172.3 (Antipater of Sidon), a farmer is snake-bitten while trying to drive birds away from his crops; see also more fully at alpha 3313, kappa 2231, and rho 174; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 18-19); (vol. II, 51-52); and further excerpts from this epigram at beta 308, epsilon 1287, omicron 971, and psi 75. Gow and Page note (vol. II, 51) that the headword, xermasth/r (stone-slinger), here in the genitive singular, is not attested elsewhere.

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 from2 entries

α3313Ἄποθενaway, far from[Meaning] without, or from afar. "Stretching the well-twisted arms of my leathern sling, I, Alcimenes, kept the cloud of birds away." And elsewhere: "but Rufinus met him afterwards as he was returning not far from the…
β308ΒιστονίαBistonianEpithet of the crane. "Holding back the thievish high-flying Bistonian crane from the crop."

Neighbouring entries

χ205Χεριφυρέαhand-kneaded χ206Χερμαδίῳwith a stone χ207Χερμαστήρstone-slinger χ208Χερνῆτιςlaboring-woman χ209Χερνίβαhand-bath

Revision history6 revisions · last 23 Jun 2021

23 Jun 2021expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords — Ronald Allen
12 Jan 2020tweaked note — Catharine Roth
10 Nov 2013 — David Whitehead
20 Mar 2008another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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19 Mar 2008Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Χερμαστήρ (Adler number chi 207), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 19 Mar 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/chi/207

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