Ποίην
grass
Translated by Catharine Roth28 May 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ποίην· πόαν, βοτάνην. καὶ Ποιηφάγον, τὴν σταφυλολόγον· ἢ τὴν τοὺς ἀστάχυας ὄπισθεν τῶν θεριζόντων σωρεύουσαν.
Betacode
*poi/hn: po/an, bota/nhn. kai\ *poihfa/gon, th\n stafulolo/gon: h)\ th\n tou\s a)sta/xuas o)/pisqen tw=n qerizo/ntwn swreu/ousan.
Notes (3)
- 1Epic/Ionic form (cf. pi 3074) of this accusative singular, glossed with Attic form, for which see pi 1838. ↩
- 2Similarly in other lexica (references at Photius pi995 Theodoridis), and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 14.347, where the accusative singular headword occurs (web address 1). See also scholion on Theocritus, Idylls 3.32b. ↩
- 3Adler suggests that this may come from a commentary on Callimachus' Hecale (where fr. 365 is this contextless word); Wendel (p. 43) agrees. Toup conjectured
poiolo/gon h)\ th\n ; Bernhardy mentions a variety of proposed emendations, but accepts the text as it is, saying that it has a tone of comic diction. ↩
References
Carl Wendel, review of Adler Part IV and Part V: Gnomon 15 (1939): 42-46
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- π1838Πόαgrass, lyeEach [sc. kind of] plant is called thus. The [plant] which soaps is called po/a in Demosthenes and Lysias. As of those who washed in lye: thus [he] glorified Malachi.
- π3074Ποίηgrass, haying-time, summer-season[Meaning] the year, in Callimachus; [so called] from the [fact of] hay growing once and only once in the year. "I [am] a quince still from the first summer-season [...]."
- π3075Ποιήεσανgrassy[Meaning] grain-bearing. Plant-like.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 19 Dec 2021
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Catharine Roth