Πράμνιος οἶνος
Pramnian wine
Translated by Catharine Roth21 Apr 2013Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Aristarchus was careful to call the sweet wine "Pramnian". Some [say] the wine which is for sale is long-lasting [paramo/nimos ];1 some [say it is so called] from the vine which is called Pramnian; some [say] it is properly the dark [wine]; some [say it is the wine which gentles [prau+/nonta ] the spirit [me/nos ], which they also call medicinal. Semos the Delian in his third [book says]2 that in Nikaia3 there is a Pramnan [sic] rock,4 from which the wine comes.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πράμνιος οἶνος· Ἀρίσταρχος ἐπιμελῶς τὸν ἡδὺν οἶνον Πράμνιον ἔλεγε· τινὲς τὸν ὤνιον οἶνον παραμόνιμον, τινὲς ἀπὸ ἀμπέλου Πραμνίας ὀνομαζομένης, οἱ δὲ ἰδίως τὸν μέλανα· ἔνιοι τὸν πραΰνοντα τὸ μένος, ὃν καὶ φαρμακίτην φασί. Σῆμος ὁ Δήλιος ἐν γʹ, ἐν Νικαίῳ Πράμνον πέτραν εἶναι, ἀφ' ἧς τὸν οἶνον εἶναι.
Betacode
*pra/mnios oi)=nos: *)ari/starxos e)pimelw=s to\n h(du\n oi)=non *pra/mnion e)/lege: tine\s to\n w)/nion oi)=non paramo/nimon, tine\s a)po\ a)mpe/lou *pramni/as o)nomazome/nhs, oi( de\ i)di/ws to\n me/lana: e)/nioi to\n prau/+nonta to\ me/nos, o(\n kai\ farmaki/thn fasi/. *sh=mos o( *dh/lios e)n g#, e)n *nikai/w| *pra/mnon pe/tran ei)=nai, a)f' h(=s to\n oi)=non ei)=nai.
Notes (4)
- Same entry in Photius (pi1135 Theodoridis, but see further in notes below); similar material in other lexica, in Didymus (cited by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.30D [1.55 Kaibel]), and in scholia on Homer (Iliad 11.638), Aristophanes (Knights 107), and Plato (Ion 538C). For Aristarchus see alpha 3892.
cf. upsilon 644. - 1paramonimos only here in the Suda; Photius' word was paramonios. ↩
- 2FGrH 396 [sigma 327] F6. ↩
- 3Apparently a toponym (though Theodoridis does not print one). but emended by Kuster to Ikaros [iota 257] on the strength of Athenaeus (above). ↩
- 4Textual doubt again here: Theodoridis tentatively prints
o( pra/gmwn . ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 24 Jun 2016
- expanded primary note — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; tweaking — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth