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Ἔθειραι · locks (ε 319) · Suda

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Near ε319

ε315they put, they set
ε316ran
ε317was running along
ε318locks
ε319locks
ε320tends
ε321they marvelled, they were awestruck
ε322created, established
ε323I was emasculated, I was enervated, I was weakened

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε319

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Ἔθειραι

locks

Translated by William Hutton26 Jun 2005Vetting: high7 revisions

children
clothing
daily life
definition
epic
gender and sexuality
+4

3 notes · 32 words

Translation

[Meaning] hairs that are tended to habitually.¹
"When Eudoxos carded his first fine locks."² ['Carded'] meaning combed. And [sc. again] in the Epigrams: "Doris↗, pulling back one hair of her golden lock."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἔθειραι· αἱ ἐξ ἔθους ἐπιμελούμεναι τρίχες. πρώτας ὁππότ' ἔπεξε καλὰς Εὔδοξος ἐθείρας. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐκτένισε. καὶ ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· χρυσῆς εἰρύσασα μίαν τρίχα Δωρὶς ἐθείρης.

Betacode

*)/eqeirai: ai( e)c e)/qous e)pimelou/menai tri/xes. prw/tas o(ppo/t' e)/pece kala\s *eu)/docos e)qei/ras. a)nti\ tou= e)kte/nise. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: xrush=s ei)ru/sasa mi/an tri/xa *dwri\s e)qei/rhs.

Notes (3)

Poetic noun; cf. epsilon 318.
1Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (63.9), and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 8.42, where the headword occurs (dative plural, of a horse's mane: web address 1 below). See also epsilon 320. ↩
2Greek Anthology 6.279.1 (Euphorion, cf. epsilon 3801), on the ceremonial first cutting of a boy's hair; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 98), (vol. II, 285), and another excerpt from this epigram at pi 1784. Gow and Page note (vol. I, 98) that here the Anthologia Palatina transmits e)/plece (plaited, braided), but they follow the Suda in reading e)/pece (carded), a verb typically used for the shearing of animals (vol. II, 285). ↩
3Greek Anthology 5.230.1 (Paul the Silentiary), Doris binds her lover's hands with the hair, but he is unable to break it. See another excerpt from this epigram at tau 639.

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)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from2 entries

ε318Ἔθειρlocks[Meaning] hair. The accusative [is] e)/qeira.
ε320Ἐθείρειtends[Meaning he/she/it] habitually cares for.

Neighbouring entries

ε317Ἔθειwas running along ε318Ἔθειρlocks ε319Ἔθειραιlocks ε320Ἐθείρειtends ε321Ἐθηήσαντοthey marvelled, they were awestruck

Revision history7 revisions · last 31 Jul 2023

31 Jul 2023expanded n.3, added cross-reference — Ronald Allen
31 Jul 2023corrected Anthology reference, augmented n.3 — Ronald Allen
6 Dec 2021expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords — Ronald Allen
7 Dec 2015expanded n.1; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
31 Jul 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
27 Jun 2005another x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
26 Jun 2005added notes, link, cross-reference, keyword, status — Catharine Roth
26 Jun 2005Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἔθειραι (Adler number epsilon 319), trans. William Hutton, 26 Jun 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/319

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 ↗