The book of Canticles a New Rhythmical Translation
The book of Canticles a New Rhythmical Translation
Paul Haupt
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3), and if it is not an accidental coincidence, we must believe that Theocritus had heard in Alexandria a Greek version of some of the Damascene love-ditties in Cant-t Od. 6, 231 (23, 158) it is stated that Athena made Ulysses' bushy locks flow down from his head like hya- cinths : — V 5 Si ' Kao oe KapyjTOS oii\as -^Ke Kd/xas vaKLvdLvif dvdet opiolas. Hyacinthine locks means, therefore, dark (purple) hair. The bulbous plant which we call hyacinth was brought from Bagdad to Aleppo during the se...cond half of the IQ^^ cent, and was cultivated in England about the end of the 16*1^ cent. The Latin equivalent of vaKtv^os is vaccinium, which seems to be a corruption of hyacinthus {*vaccinthus\\). Vergil (Eel 10, 39) renders Theocr. 10, 28 : et nigrae violae sunt, et vaccinia nigra. The precious stone hyacinth § of the ancients (Vulg. , plenae hya- cinthis = studded with tarshish ; cf. N. 38 on No. 6) was our amethyst (i. E. , a purple variety of quartz), while dfiievaros and aniethystus denote the Oriental amethyst or amethystine sapphire, also called purple ruby {i.
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