Χροός

of skin

Translated by Catharine Roth · 4 Jun 2007 · Vetting: high · 9 revisions

Translation

[Meaning] of a body.¹
And Homer [writes]: "and nothing at all of his skin showed." *xro/os is different, [when] meaning xrw/s [in the nominative]. Hence it has a low accent [on the last syllable]. But ei)/sato ["showed"] [means] appeared.²
"Wash your skin clean in Inopos, and go into the house."³

Greek original

Χροός· σώματος. καὶ Ὅμηρος· ἀλλ' οὔπη χροὸς εἴσατο. διῄρηται ὁ χρόος, ἀντὶ τοῦ ὁ χρώς. διὸ καὶ βαρύνεται. τὸ δὲ εἴσατο, ἐφάνη. λοῦσαι δ' Ἰνωπῷ καθαρὸν χρόα, βᾶθι δ' ἐς οἴκους.

Betacode

*xroo/s: sw/matos. kai\ *(/omhros: a)ll' ou)/ph xroo\s ei)/sato. dih/|rhtai o( xro/os, a)nti\ tou= o( xrw/s. dio\ kai\ baru/netai. to\ de\ ei)/sato, e)fa/nh. lou=sai d' *)inwpw=| kaqaro\n xro/a, ba=qi d' e)s oi)/kous.

Notes (2)

[1] The headword is epic genitive of xrw/s, possibly extracted from the first quotation given but more probably from another Homeric instance, Iliad 4.130; see the scholia there. For the glossing (also in other lexica) cf. chi 546, chi 550.
2Homer, Iliad 13.191 (web address 1), with scholion; see also epsiloniota 235. LSJ do not mention an disyllabic nominative xro/os; oblique case forms with the stem xro- occur in epic and Attic tragedy. ↩
3Greek Anthology 6.273.3 (attributed to Nossis), with the epic accusative xro/a; already at iota 383. On this epigram, a prayer to Artemis to abandon the hunt and assist Alcetis in childbirth, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 154) and (vol. II, 443). Gow and Page include this epigram among those ascribed to Nossis, but they acknowledge (ibid.) that the heading w(s *nossi/dos in the Anthologia Palatina does cast some doubt on the attribution. Indeed, for Paton (444-445) the poem's author is "Like Nossis". The Inopos (iota 383) was a small stream on the Aegean island of Delos; cf. delta 407 and delta 408.

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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)
W.R. Paton, trans., The Greek Anthology: Books I-VI, (Cambridge, MA 1993)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from (1)

χ546Χρώςskin

Neighbours in Adler order

χ533Χρόνοςtime χ534Χρόνος γὰρ εὐμαρὴς θεόςfor time (is) a kindly god χ535Χρόνου πόδαtime's foot χ536Χροόςof skin χ537ΧρῴζωI stain, I tinge χ538Χρῶμαcolor, musical modulation, chromatic scale χ539Χρῶμαcolor

Revisions (9)

21 Jan 2022Catharine Rothtweaked translation
21 Jan 2022Ronald Allenfurther expanded n.3, added to bibliography
20 Jan 2022Ronald Allenexpanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords
20 Jan 2019Catharine Rothtweaked note, added a keyword
13 Nov 2013Catharine Rothcoding
13 Nov 2013David Whiteheadtweaked and expanded n.1
4 Jun 2007David Whiteheadanother x-ref and keyword; tweaks and cosmetics
4 Jun 2007Catharine Rothtranslated

Greek original

Betacode

*xroo/s: sw/matos. kai\ *(/omhros: a)ll' ou)/ph xroo\s ei)/sato. dih/|rhtai o( xro/os, a)nti\ tou= o( xrw/s. dio\ kai\ baru/netai. to\ de\ ei)/sato, e)fa/nh. lou=sai d' *)inwpw=| kaqaro\n xro/a, ba=qi d' e)s oi)/kous.

Notes (2)

[1] The headword is epic genitive of xrw/s, possibly extracted from the first quotation given but more probably from another Homeric instance, Iliad 4.130; see the scholia there. For the glossing (also in other lexica) cf. chi 546, chi 550.

2Homer, Iliad 13.191 (web address 1), with scholion; see also epsiloniota 235. LSJ do not mention an disyllabic nominative xro/os; oblique case forms with the stem xro- occur in epic and Attic tragedy. ↩

3Greek Anthology 6.273.3 (attributed to Nossis), with the epic accusative xro/a; already at iota 383. On this epigram, a prayer to Artemis to abandon the hunt and assist Alcetis in childbirth, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 154) and (vol. II, 443). Gow and Page include this epigram among those ascribed to Nossis, but they acknowledge (ibid.) that the heading w(s *nossi/dos in the Anthologia Palatina does cast some doubt on the attribution. Indeed, for Paton (444-445) the poem's author is "Like Nossis". The Inopos (iota 383) was a small stream on the Aegean island of Delos; cf. delta 407 and delta 408.