Πλαγγόνων
hair-nets, wax dolls
Translated by Ronald Allen24 May 2011Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
"Let us leave the delicate lads alone with their wet-nurses to chatter and to talk about weft and warps and (?)hair-nets."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πλαγγόνων· τὰ μειράκια θρυπτόμενα παρὰ ταῖς τίτθαις στωμύλλεσθαι καὶ λέγειν περὶ κρόκης καὶ στημόνων καὶ πλαγγόνων ἐάσωμεν.
Betacode
*plaggo/nwn: ta\ meira/kia qrupto/mena para\ tai=s ti/tqais stwmu/llesqai kai\ le/gein peri\ kro/khs kai\ sthmo/nwn kai\ plaggo/nwn e)a/swmen.
Notes (1)
- The unglossed headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given, where context makes it a genitive plural form. Its meaning here is uncertain. Besides being a well-attested woman's name, a
plaggw/n is defined by Hesychius s.v. as a wax doll (which is the meaning it bears in e.g. Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter 92); however, he addskai\ plaggo/nes kekru/faloi -- "also, plangones are women's hair-nets".
In her critical apparatus Adler notes that mss AF transmit*plago/nwn , although a later hand corrected this within ms A; also that the rest of the entry is lacking in ms F. - 1The quotation, again at sigma 1154 and in part at tau 688, is unidentifiable. Adler notes Cobet's attribution of it to Aelian. Adler also notes that mss AM (after correction) here transmit the alternative spelling
plago/nwn for the headword. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 13 Sep 2021
- cosmeticule, coding — Catharine Roth
- coding — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented primary note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen