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Ἀγρονόμοι · country-dwellers (α 368) · Suda

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α364agrippos
α365rake, harrow
α366land-waster
α367assembling
α368country-dwellers
α369countrymen, rurals
α370of wilde
α371rump of the country; fat of the land
α372Agronides

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Ἀγρονόμοι

country-dwellers

Translated by Anne Mahoney28 Aug 1998Vetting: high8 revisions

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1 note · 22 words

Translation

Those living in the country.¹
"Singing cicada drunk on dewdrops, you celebrate the country-dwelling Muse who sings in solitude." In the Epigrams.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀγρονόμοι· οἱ ἐν ἀγροῖς διάγοντες. ἠχήεις τέττιξ δροσεραῖς σταγόνεσι μεθυσθεὶς, ἀγρόνομον μέλπεις μοῦσαν ἐρημολάλον. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι.

Betacode

*)agrono/moi: oi( e)n a)groi=s dia/gontes. h)xh/eis te/ttic droserai=s stago/nesi mequsqei\s, a)gro/nomon me/lpeis mou=san e)rhmola/lon. e)n *)epigra/mmasi.

Notes (1)

[1] The headword is nominative plural masculine or feminine, but the glosses are unambiguously masculine. Up to this point the entry = an entry in the rhetorical lexicon of Eudemus (4b.47 Niese), Synagoge (Codex B) alpha195, Photius alpha270. Hesychius alpha825 has the same headword and gloss in the genitive case. The source for the lemma is unknown, though its presence in Eudemus suggests a rhetorical source. It occurs in Homer, Odyssey 6.106, but as a feminine adjective, and is accordingly given feminine glosses in the scholia.
2Greek Anthology 7.196.1-2 (Meleager [Author, Myth]), an invitation to a cicada to make music; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (220) and vol. II (616-617). A further quotation from this epigram appears at kappa 2232. LaPenna theorized (93-112) that the rural setting and the singing cicada, among other thematic coincidences, showed that Meleager drew upon Plato, Phaedrus 229A-230C and 259 (web address 1) for inspiration. But there are also inconsistencies, such as the cicada's inebriation from drinking dewdrops, which appears to be novel in the epigram (Gow and Page, vol. II 616). Consequently, neither these authors (ibid.) nor Dorsey (138) were convinced by LaPenna's argument.

References

Niese, B., ed. (1922) ”Excerpta ex Eudemi codice Parisino n. 2635," Philologus, suppl. 15.
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)
A. LaPenna, "Marginalia et Hariolationes Philologae," Maia 5 (1952)
D.F. Dorsey, "The Cicada's Song in Anthologia Palatina vii. 196," Classical Review 20 (June 1970) 137-139

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from3 entries

ε3082Ἕρσηdew[e(/rsh is the same as] h( dro/sos. "Tasting the moisture of gentle dew." For cicadas feed on dew.
κ2232Κῶλαlimbs[Meaning] bones. "The she-camel folded her limbs under and seated herself on her breast." And elsewhere: "sitting on the ends of leaves you shrill with saw-like limbs on dark skin a lyric strain."
λ73Λαλαγεῦσανbabbling[Meaning] sounding melodically. In the Epigrams: "the rustic strain formerly babbling in the groves [the cicada] adapted to the tune of our lyre-plucking."

Neighbouring entries

α366Ἀγρολέτειραland-waster α367Ἀγρόμενοιassembling α368Ἀγρονόμοιcountry-dwellers α369Ἀγρόταςcountrymen, rurals α370Ἀγροτέραςof wilde

Revision history8 revisions · last 26 Dec 2018

26 Dec 2018expanded n.2, added bibliography items, added keywords — Ronald Allen
21 Aug 2013updated reference — William Hutton
8 Jan 2012tweaked note; more keywords — David Whitehead
22 Jul 2009modified notes, typo, added keywords — William Hutton
25 May 2008augmented n.1; another keyword — David Whitehead
23 May 2008augmented notes, raised status — Catharine Roth
7 Oct 2005another keyword — David Whitehead
29 Apr 2002augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
28 Aug 1998Translated — Anne Mahoney

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀγρονόμοι (Adler number alpha 368), trans. Anne Mahoney, 28 Aug 1998. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/368

Translation by Anne Mahoney for Suda On Line, revised by Ronald Allen, William Hutton, David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗