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Headword:
Iünx
Adler number: iota,759
Translated headword: Jynx, Iunx
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A daughter of Echo or Peitho [Persuasion], conqueror-in-the-games[1] and of Aphrodite; bewitching Zeus with drugs she was turned to stone for such things by Hera.[2] And she was called kinaidion ['little pervert'] by some. There is also a little instrument which is called iunx, which enchantresses are accustomed to turn about as they cast charms on their beloveds. It is also a bird, which is believed to have the same power.[3] Wherefore they bind [them] on wheels.[4]
Greek Original:Iünx, Êchous ê Peithous thugatêr, hieronikês kai Aphroditês: katapharmattousa de ton Dia epi toioutois apelithôthê hupo Hêras. kaleitai de hup' eniôn kinaidion. esti de kai organion ti iünx kaloumenon, hoper eiôthasin hai pharmakides strephein, hôs katakêloumenai tous agapômenous. esti de kai orneon ti, hôi proseitai tên autên dunamin echein. hothen desmeuousi tois trochiskois.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius (
Lexicon iota273 Theodoridis); similar matrual in other lexica, and in
scholia on
Pindar (
Pythian 4.381a,
Nemean 4.56) and
Theocritus (
Idylls 2.17).
See also
iota 758,
iota 760,
iota 761.
[1] Adler prints the transmitted
i(eroni/khs but notes it as corrupt. In his
Photius edition Theodoridis prints (but obelizes) Porson's conjecture
i(era\ *Ni/khs, "priestess(?) of Nike and of Aphrodite".
[2] The Suda omits from this sentence the phrase (in
Photius and one of the
Pindar scholia)
e)pi\ *)Ioi=.
[3] The wryneck,
Jynx torquilla, a Eurasian woodpecker; cf. Peterson, et al. (156).
[4] cf. Jobling s.v. Jynx (212), Nelson (443-456), and
iota 760 note.
R. Peterson, G. Montfort, and P. Hollom, A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, (New York, 1993)
J.A. Jobling, Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names, (London, 2010)
G.W. Nelson, "A Greek Votive Iynx-Wheel in Boston," American Journal of Archaeology 44 (1940) 443-456
Keywords: daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; mythology; poetry; science and technology; women; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 December 2000@10:34:46.
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