Ἐν χρῷ
on skin, to skin
Translated by Catharine Roth1 Jun 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] into the skin, very close, so as even to touch.1
But in Callimachus [sc. there occurs the adverb]e)gkuti/ , meaning e)ggu/s ["near"], on the skin, near the skin. "But you were shorn close, child."2
And Agathias [writes]: "binding them around, they attached them to each other and joined them pressed very close together."3
But in Callimachus [sc. there occurs the adverb]
And Agathias [writes]: "binding them around, they attached them to each other and joined them pressed very close together."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐν χρῷ· εἰς χρῶτα, πάνυ ἐγγύς, ὡς καὶ ἐφάπτεσθαι. παρὰ δὲ Καλλιμάχῳ ἐγκυτί, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐγγύς, ἐν χρωτί, πλησίον τοῦ χρωτός. τὺ δ' ἐγκυτί, τέκνον, ἐκέρσω. καὶ Ἀγαθίας· περισφίγξαντες ξυνῆπτον αὐτὰς ἀλλήλαις καὶ συνεμίγνυον λίαν ἐν χρῷ πεπιεσμένα.
Betacode
*)en xrw=|: ei)s xrw=ta, pa/nu e)ggu/s, w(s kai\ e)fa/ptesqai. para\ de\ *kallima/xw| e)gkuti/, a)nti\ tou= e)ggu/s, e)n xrwti/, plhsi/on tou= xrwto/s. tu\ d' e)gkuti/, te/knon, e)ke/rsw. kai\ *)agaqi/as: perisfi/gcantes cunh=pton au)ta\s a)llh/lais kai\ sunemi/gnuon li/an e)n xrw=| pepiesme/na.
Notes (3)
- See also epsilon 1507, epsilon 1508.↩
- 1cf. scholion on Sophocles, Ajax 786 (where the headword phrase occurs); also other lexica. ↩
- 2Callimachus, Hekale fr. 281, with scholion; cf. epsilon 139. ↩
- 3Agathias, Histories 5.21 (on using reeds to make a raft); but read
pepiesme/nas . The extract here is from Agathias's account of the reed boat attack by Kotrigur Huns on the Thracian Chersonese (the modern-day Gallipoli Peninsula; cf. chi 215) in 559 CE; cf. Frendo (158) and for related entries, see alpha 1017, gamma 304, epsilon 85, and kappa 2274.
References
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Linked from4 entries
- ε139Ἐγκυτίto the skinMeaning close. So Callimachus [uses the word].
- ε1507Ἐν χρῷ κεκαρμένοςshorn [close] to skin[Meaning he who has been shorn] to the very skin, as if having had the hairs shaved near and close to the skin. And elsewhere: "he was a friend to him, skin-close." [The noun] xrw/s ["skin"] [is declined] xrw= [in the…
- ε1508Ἐν χρῷ παραπλέωνsailing close to skinIn Thucydides [this expression is used] meaning close. For it is [an instance of] apocope, because it was [sc. in full] e)n xrwti/. It is said from shaving which is done close to the skin.
- ε3167Ἐς ὅτι μάλισταto the greatest [extent]Meaning very much. "[They collected] reeds [...] as stiff and as thick as possible."
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Revision history5 revisions · last 20 Oct 2023
- expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword — Ronald Allen
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth