Ῥαδινή
slender, tender
Translated by Catharine Roth4 Sep 2010Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] weak, thin.1 "A man's head exposed to the sun [is] strong, but the shaded [head is] is tender."2
In the Epigrams: "o of the foot, o of the shin, [...] o of the slender neck."3 And elsewhere: "the slender Melite at the threshold of long old age did not lose the grace of youth."4 And elsewhere: "no longer curled under the long-leaved expanse of a shoot will I sing, uttering a sound from slender mouths."5
In the Epigrams: "o of the foot, o of the shin, [...] o of the slender neck."3 And elsewhere: "the slender Melite at the threshold of long old age did not lose the grace of youth."4 And elsewhere: "no longer curled under the long-leaved expanse of a shoot will I sing, uttering a sound from slender mouths."5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥαδινή· ἀσθενής, λεπτή. κεφαλὴ ἀνθρώπου καρτερὰ μὲν ἡ ἡλιουμένη, ῥαδινὴ δὲ ἡ ἐσκιατραφημένη. καὶ ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· ὦ ποδός, ὦ κνήμης, ὦ τοῦ ῥαδινοῖο τραχήλου. καὶ αὖθις· ἡ ῥαδινὴ Μελίτη ταναοῦ ἐπὶ γήραος οὐδῷ τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ἥβης οὐκ ἀπέθηκε χάριν. καὶ αὖθις· οὐκέτι δὴ τανύφυλλον ὑπὸ πλάκα κλωνὸς ἑλιχθεὶς φθέγξομ' ἀπὸ ῥαδινῶν φθόγγων ἱεὶς στομάτων.
Betacode
*(radinh/: a)sqenh/s, lepth/. kefalh\ a)nqrw/pou kartera\ me\n h( h(lioume/nh, r(adinh\ de\ h( e)skiatrafhme/nh. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: w)= podo/s, w)= knh/mhs, w)= tou= r(adinoi=o traxh/lou. kai\ au)=qis: h( r(adinh\ *meli/th tanaou= e)pi\ gh/raos ou)dw=| th\n a)po\ th=s h(/bhs ou)k a)pe/qhke xa/rin. kai\ au)=qis: ou)ke/ti dh\ tanu/fullon u(po\ pla/ka klwno\s e(lixqei\s fqe/gcom' a)po\ r(adinw=n fqo/ggwn i(ei\s stoma/twn.
Notes (5)
- 1The headword is feminine nominative singular of this adjective. It might be quoted from somewhere in this precise form, and, if so, perhaps from the quotation which immediately follows (other possibilities include Nicander, Theriaca 544); however, the glossing is essentially the same as that provided for the accusative
r(adinh/n in Homer, Iliad 23.583; cf. the scholia there, and other lexica. ↩ - 2Synesius, In Praise of Baldness PG 66.1189b. ↩
- 3Greek Anthology 5.132.1 & 3 (Philodemus), on an Oscan girl's charms; cf. Gow and Page (Garland of Philip, vol. I, 356-359) and (Garland of Philip, vol. II, 381-382). The Osci (Opici) were an ancient people of Southern Italy; cf. LSJ s.v.
*)opikoi/ (web address 1) and OCD(4) s.v. Oscans. ↩ - 4Greek Anthology 5.282.1-2 (Agathias Scholasticus), the poet concludes that time cannot subdue nature. ↩
- 5An approximation of Greek Anthology 7.200.1-2 (Nicias); the poem has
te/rpomai "I delight" instead offqeg/comai ,fqo/ggon (accusative singular) instead offqo/ggwn (genitive plural), andpteru/gwn "wings" instead ofstoma/twn . On this epigram, about an insect captured by a boy, see Gow and Page (Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, 150) and (Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, 431). As Gow and Page note (vol. I, 150), the Anthologia Palatina scribe designated J (the Lemmatist) identified the insect as a cicada (te/ttic ). The masculine participles and the habitat described in the epigram support this identification; however, the noisemaking mechanism here is characteristic only of crickets and long-horned grasshoppers; cf. Gow and Page (vol. II, 431). ↩
References
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
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.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
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)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history9 revisions · last 20 Aug 2023
- augmented n.4 — Ronald Allen
- expanded n.3, added to bibliography, added link — Ronald Allen
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- expanded n.5, added bibliography, added keyword — Ronald Allen
- tweaked notes — Catharine Roth
- expanded n.1; another keyword — David Whitehead
- coding — Catharine Roth
- another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth