Ῥέθος
countenance, limb
Translated by Ioannis Doukas5 Dec 2007Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] face, blush, body-part, heart.1
"Here [lies] her soft and tender countenance, here lies Trugonion."2
Homer [writes]: "and his soul fleeting out of [his] limbs was gone to Hades".3
Also [sc. attested is the word]r(eqomali/dai ,4 [meaning] those who are soft in the flesh. For the whole body is called r(e/qos .
And it declinesr(e/qous [in the genitive], and r(e/qh in the plural.
"Here [lies] her soft and tender countenance, here lies Trugonion."2
Homer [writes]: "and his soul fleeting out of [his] limbs was gone to Hades".3
Also [sc. attested is the word]
And it declines
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥέθος· πρόσωπον, ἐρύθημα, μέλος, σπλάγχνον. ἐνθάδε τῆς τρυφερᾶς μαλακὸν ῥέθος, ἐνθάδε κεῖται τρυγόνιον. Ὅμηρος· ψυχὴ δ' ἐκ ῥεθέων πταμένη ἄϊδόσδε βεβήκει. καὶ Ῥεθομαλίδαι, οἱ τρυφεροὶ τὴν σάρκα. λέγεται γὰρ καὶ ὅλον τὸ σῶμα ῥέθος. καὶ κλίνεται ῥέθους, πληθυντικὸν τὰ ῥέθη.
Betacode
*(re/qos: pro/swpon, e)ru/qhma, me/los, spla/gxnon. e)nqa/de th=s trufera=s malako\n r(e/qos, e)nqa/de kei=tai trugo/nion. *(/omhros: yuxh\ d' e)k r(eqe/wn ptame/nh a)/i+do/sde bebh/kei. kai\ *(reqomali/dai, oi( truferoi\ th\n sa/rka. le/getai ga\r kai\ o(/lon to\ sw=ma r(e/qos. kai\ kli/netai r(e/qous, plhquntiko\n ta\ r(e/qh.
Notes (4)
- The neuter headword regularly means 'limbs' when used in the plural (esp. in Homer) but 'countenance' as a singular: see LSJ s.v.
- 1Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius rho73 Theodoridis. ↩
- 2Greek Anthology 7.222.1-2 (Philodemus); cf. sigma 4. (Trugonion, here a woman's name, is also the diminutive of
trugw/n , turtle-dove; cf. Sider (180)) On this epigram--an epitaph, but almost unquestionably satirical--see Gow and Page (vol. I, 366-367) and (vol. II, 396-398). The gender of the deceased subject is unclear and a matter of debate among scholars; cf. Gow and Page (vol. II, 396). Paton, for example, takes (126-127) Trugonion (Trygonian) to be a Gallus (gamma 41, gamma 42), one of the emasculated priests of Rhea (rho 83, kappa 2586). Gow and Page are inclined (op. cit.) to accept this interpretation. Also, see Sider's commentary (op. cit.). ↩ - 3Homer, Iliad 16.856 and 22.362 (web addresses 1 and 2), a formulaic verse used respectively in the key scenes of Patroclus' and Hector's death; cf. Eustathius and the scholia to the verses; also quoted in ps.-Zonaras and Etymologicum Magnum s.v.
r(e/qh . ↩ - 4Apart from this entry, the word is also attested (in the accusative plural) in the scholia to Homer, Iliad 22.68 (web address 3), where it is defined as an Aeolic word meaning fair of face (
eu)prosw/pous ). ↩
References
D. Sider, The Epigrams of Philodemos, (Oxford, 1997)
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)
W.R. Paton, trans., The Greek Anthology: Books VII-VIII, (Cambridge, MA 1993)
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)
W.R. Paton, trans., The Greek Anthology: Books VII-VIII, (Cambridge, MA 1993)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history7 revisions · last 24 Feb 2023
- augmented n.2, added to bibliography — Ronald Allen
- expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword — Ronald Allen
- tweaked another note — Catharine Roth
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more notes; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- x-ref; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas