Μυδῶντες
dripping
Translated by David Whitehead6 Aug 2009Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μυδῶντες· βρέχοντες, διυγραμμένοι, σαπέντες. καὶ ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· ἧς παρὰ Κύπριδι ταῦτα μύροις ἔτι πάντα μυδῶντα κεῖνται, παρθενίων ὑγρὰ λάφυρα πόθων.
Betacode
*mudw=ntes: bre/xontes, diugramme/noi, sape/ntes. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: h(=s para\ *ku/pridi tau=ta mu/rois e)/ti pa/nta mudw=nta kei=ntai, parqeni/wn u(gra\ la/fura po/qwn.
Notes (2)
- The headword participle, masculine nominative plural, is similarly glossed in Photius (mu572 Theodoridis) and other lexica. It must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Polybius 6.25.7 (of the leather coverings of early Roman cavalry shields), or Josephus, Jewish War 3.530 (of corpses).
A similar gloss appears in the scholia on Nicander, Theriaca 308 (where the lemma ismudo/wntes ).
cf. generally mu 1373, mu 1374, mu 1375. - 1The present participle
bre/xontes is transmitted in the lexica; Theodoridis (above) declares his support for Naber's emendation to aoristbraxe/ntes . ↩ - 2Greek Anthology 5.199.3-4 (Hedylus), Aglaonice dedicates clothing items after attending a symposium and then spending the night with her lover; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 100) and (vol. II, 290). 'Kypris' is Aphrodite (kappa 2738). Although they hesitate to accept it (ibid.), Gow and Page note that in a lemma the Anthologia Palatina scribe designated C (the Corrector) identified Aglaonice as a hetaera (cf. epsilon 3265 and epsilon 3266); cf. (vol. I, 100). ↩
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)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
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Revision history8 revisions · last 26 Dec 2021
- better wording n.2 — Ronald Allen
- expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- expanded n.1; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead