Οἶμος
path, way
Translated by Catharine Roth9 Jun 2005Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Οἶμος· ὁδός· ἢ στίχος· ἢ ῥάβδος κύκλου. ἔνθεν καὶ παροιμία κέκληται, τὸ παροδικὸν διήγημα. ἔργον Ἀλεξάνδροιο Μακηδόνος, οἵ ποτ' ἄνακτι Δαρείῳ πυμάτην οἶμον ἐφεσπόμεθα.
Betacode
*oi)=mos: o(do/s: h)\ sti/xos: h)\ r(a/bdos ku/klou. e)/nqen kai\ paroimi/a ke/klhtai, to\ parodiko\n dih/ghma. e)/rgon *)aleca/ndroio *makhdo/nos, oi(/ pot' a)/nakti *darei/w| puma/thn oi)=mon e)fespo/meqa.
Notes (3)
- On possible etymologies of
oi)=mos oroi(=mos , see Chantraine s.v.; and cf. phi 745. - 1cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 11.24; scholion on Pindar, Olympian 9.72d. See also omicroniota 95, omicroniota 100. [LSJ s.v.
r(a/bdos does not mention the use of the word for any part of a wheel, but elsewhere rhabdoi are slender; so better 'spoke' than axle.] ↩ - 2(cf. pi 733.) Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius omicron110 Theodoridis. ↩
- 3Greek Anthology 7.246.3-4: Antipater of Sidon, epitaph for fallen Persian soldiers. As the epigram's first two lines--not included in the Suda--make clear, Antipater refers to Alexander's victory in 333 BCE over forces led by Darius III at the battle of Issos (Issus, Nikopolis; cf. iota 662; in the modern Turkish Hatay Province, near the Syrian border; Barrington Atlas map 67 grid C3); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 19). Gow and Page (vol. II, 53-54) find the inspiration for this particular epitaph to be curious. The epigrammatist may have been motivated, they suggest (ibid.), by the fact that Alexander's Issos victory enabled his further advance south to Antipater's birthplace of Sidon (sigma 383, Barrington Atlas map 69 grid B2). ↩
References
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 (Paris 2009)
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. I, (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 history6 revisions · last 6 Oct 2020
- expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
- augmented n.2 and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added note, cross-reference, and bibliography — Catharine Roth
- betacode cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- tweaked translation; augmented n.1 — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth