Πυγμαλῖνος

Pygmalinos, Pygmalinus

Translated by David Whitehead18 Apr 2003Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 9 words
A proper name.1 Also [sc. attested is] *pugmali/wnos ["Pygmalion's"].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πυγμαλῖνος· ὄνομα κύριον. καὶ Πυγμαλίωνος.

Betacode
*pugmali=nos: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *pugmali/wnos.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Attested only here. ↩
  2. 2See generally OCD(4) s.v. Pygmalion for the two mythological figures of that name, from the eastern Mediterranean. The better-known is the king of Cyprus who conceived a fetishistic passion for the ivory cult-statue of Aphrodite/Astarte (but see Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.243ff. at web address 1 for another version). Here in the Suda the name is in the genitive case and so evidently quoted from somewhere (e.g. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5.5). ↩

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Revision history7 revisions · last 25 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. fixed link — Catharine Roth
  5. tweaked tr; augmented n.2 — David Whitehead
  6. augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. added link, set status — Catharine Roth
  8. Translated — David Whitehead

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