Πινόεσσα
dirty
Translated by Catharine Roth4 Sep 2012Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] filthy, squalid. "I Virtue mourn, sitting heavy-hearted, with shorn hair, dirty, because of a judgment, because it was not the virtue of the Pelasgians that obtained victory, but their deceit."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πινόεσσα· ῥυπῶσα, αὐχμῶσα. θυμοβαρὴς Ἀρετὰ μύρομαι ἑζομένα, ἀπλόκαμος, πινόεσσα, διὰ κρίσιν, ὅτι Πελασγῶν οὐκ ἀρετὰ νικᾶν ἔλλαχεν, ἀλλὰ δόλος.
Betacode
*pino/essa: r(upw=sa, au)xmw=sa. qumobarh\s *)areta\ mu/romai e(zome/na, a)plo/kamos, pino/essa, dia\ kri/sin, o(/ti *pelasgw=n ou)k a)reta\ nika=n e)/llaxen, a)lla\ do/los.
Notes (1)
- The headword, feminine nominative singular of the adjective
pino/eis (a rare poetic variant ofpinaro/s , pi 1616), is presumably extracted from the quotation given. - 1Greek Anthology 7.146.2-4 (Antipater of Sidon), on the tomb of Aias; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 13), (vol. II, 39-40), and a further extract from this epigram at theta 567. For the Pelasgians, see pi 934. Ajax's tomb was traditionally situated on a rocky headland at Rhoiteion, the southern entrance into the Hellespont (Barrington Atlas map 51 grid G4); cf. Gow and Page (vol. II, 39). Inasmuch as Aias was confounded and led to suicide, not so much by argument with aboriginal Greeks, but by the shrewdness of one of the other Greek leaders on their joint expedition to Troy--namely Odysseus--Gow and Page (vol. II, 40) suggest that "Pelasgians" might be better interpreted as "Argives". ↩
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 history3 revisions · last 2 Jun 2021
- expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keyword, added map reference — Ronald Allen
- tweaked tr — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth