Λάγυνος
flask, flagon
Translated by Oliver Phillips ✝27 Jul 2004Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
"Lie there straightway for the Cyprian,1 o drunken-stumbling flask, now dedicated, cousin of the nectar-sweet Bacchic goblet, moist-voiced, fellow banqueter at the fairly-distributed feast2, narrow-necked one, daughter of the sharing token,3 self-taught servant to mortals, sweetest initiator of lovers, readiest utensil of dinners."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λάγυνος· Κύπριδι κεῖσο, λάγυνε μεθυσφαλές, αὐτίκα δῶρον, κασιγνήτη νεκταρέης κύλικος βακχείας, ὑγρόφθογγε, συνέστιε δαιτὸς ἐΐσης, στειναύχην, ψήφου συμβολικῆς θύγατερ, θνητοῖς αὐτοδίδακτε διήκονε, μύστι φιλούντων ἡδίστη, δείπνων ὅπλον ἑτοιμότατον.
Betacode
*la/gunos: *ku/pridi kei=so, la/gune mequsfale/s, au)ti/ka dw=ron, kasignh/th nektare/hs ku/likos bakxei/as, u(gro/fqogge, sune/stie daito\s e)i/+shs, steinau/xhn, yh/fou sumbolikh=s qu/gater, qnhtoi=s au)todi/dakte dih/kone, mu/sti filou/ntwn h(di/sth, dei/pnwn o(/plon e(toimo/taton.
Notes (3)
- For this headword see already lambda 32.
The present entry consists entirely of a poetic extract which uses it (in the vocative case): Marcus Argentarius in Greek Anthology 6.248.1-6. For this Augustan rhetorican and epigrammatist see Gow and Page 2.166-67 (in the bibliography below) or, more briefly, OCD(4) p.148. - 1Aphrodite, born in the sea off Cyprus (kappa 2738). See the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. ↩
- 2An Homeric formula (delta 128). ↩
- 3This unparalleled and enigmatic expression seems (according to Gow and Page, 2. 178) to refer to the token (or pebble) that indicated the holder had contributed to the viands at a feast; in this boozy epigram, a bottle of wine. Argentarius has two other epigrams out of his 35 in the Anthology addressed to his wine bottle: 9.229 and 9.246. ↩
References
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, The Greek Anthology, Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1968
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Revision history5 revisions · last 16 May 2016
- coding; updated a ref — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- fixed cross-reference to lambda 32 (had said 33) — Ross Scaife ✝
- augmented notes; modified keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Oliver Phillips ✝