Πύξ
with the fist
Translated by Philip Rance17 Oct 2013Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πύξ· πυγμήν, γρόνθον. ὁ δὲ πὺξ παίει αὐτὸν κατὰ τῶν προσώπων. οἱ δὲ Φράγκοι, ἵνα ἐσκηνημένοι ἐτύγχανον, πύξ τε καὶ ἐπὶ πολὺ βόθρους ὀρύξαντες ταύτῃ ἀσφαλέστατα ἔμενον.
Betacode
*pu/c: pugmh/n, gro/nqon. o( de\ pu\c pai/ei au)to\n kata\ tw=n prosw/pwn. oi( de\ *fra/gkoi, i(/na e)skhnhme/noi e)tu/gxanon, pu/c te kai\ e)pi\ polu\ bo/qrous o)ru/cantes tau/th| a)sfale/stata e)/menon.
Notes (3)
- 1The headword, a single word in the Greek, is an epic/poetic adverb (later adopted in other genres). The glossing consists of two alternative nouns meaning "fist" that are scarcely distinguishable from one another in English translation. The first,
pugmh/, occurs more frequently in classical literature, whilegro/nqos is a more demotic usage (cf. pi 3113), here rendered as "mitt". Both glosses are in the accusative singular (accusatives of respect if, as seems highly likely, the headword itself is quoted from Homer, Iliad 3.237 where Polydeuces (Pollux) is described aspu\c a)gaqo/n ; cf. the scholia there). The corresponding entry in the Synagoge, pi797 Cunningham, has only the second gloss,gro/nqon ; likewise Photius, Lexicon pi1540 Theodoridis. Hesychius pi4373 presents the same two glosses in the nominative case. ↩ - 2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantiniana) unidentifiable. The same text is also quoted in an interpolated passage in Eustathius' Commentaries on Homer's Iliad 7.212 (van der Valk II 444.18). Here the plural
pro/swpa refers, as it frequently does, to a single face; see LSJ s.v. ↩ - 3Again, an unidentifiable quotation (from late-antique historiography) probably transmitted via the Excerpta. See tau 134 for a similar subject. (For the Franks, see generally phi 682.) ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 15 Feb 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks to translation and notes 1 and 2 — William Hutton
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Notes — Philip Rance
- Translated — Philip Rance