Ποδήνεμος

windswift

Translated by Ross Scaife ✝5 Nov 2002Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 13 words

Translation

[Meaning she who is] quick.1
"Sing, stranger, this sepulchre of a windswift gull."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ποδήνεμος· ἡ ταχεῖα. αἰθυίης, ξένε, τόνδε ποδηνέμου ἔννεπε τύμβον.

Betacode
*podh/nemos: h( taxei=a. ai)qui/hs, ce/ne, to/nde podhne/mou e)/nnepe tu/mbon. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1The gloss shows that the headword is here feminine. This might be generated by the quotation given, but more probably by Homeric scholia on this headword as the Iliad's standard epithet for Iris. ↩
  2. 2Greek Anthology 7.212.1 (Mnasalces), an epitaph for a swift mare named Seagull; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 143) and (vol. II, 407). ↩

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)

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Revision history7 revisions · last 5 Jan 2022
  1. expanded n.2, added bibliography — Ronald Allen
  2. tweaked note — Catharine Roth
  3. coding — Catharine Roth
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. augmented notes and keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
  6. another note; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. added note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  8. Translated — Ross Scaife ✝

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