{"id":128,"date":"2006-04-05T23:31:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-04-05T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T04:32:10","slug":"a-boring-epigram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"A Boring Epigram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to show that even Palladas can be boring, here is the shorter of his two surviving epigrams about grafting pear trees (<em>A.P.<\/em> 9.6):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"+1\"><span style=\"font-family: Vusillus, Gentium, Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS\">\u1fbf\u0391\u03c7\u03c1\u1f70\u03c2 \u1f14\u03b7\u03bd\u0387 \u03b8\u1fc6\u03ba\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c3\u1f73\u03bf \u03c7\u03b5\u03c1\u03c3\u1f76 \u03bc\u03c5\u03c1\u1f77\u03c0\u03bd\u03bf\u03bf\u03bd \u1f44\u03c7\u03bd\u03b7\u03bd<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u03b4\u1f73\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u1ff3 \u03c0\u03c4\u1f79\u03c1\u03b8\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd\u03b5\u1f77\u03c2\u0387 \u03c3\u1f74\u03bd \u03c7\u1f71\u03c1\u03b9\u03bd \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u03c3\u1f72 \u03c6\u1f73\u03c1\u03c9.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"navy\">I was a wild-pear tree (<em>pyraster<\/em>); by inserting a graft, your hand made me a fragrant pear-tree, and I reward you for your kindness.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">(translation adapted from W. R. Paton&#8217;s Loeb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to show that even Palladas can be boring, here is the shorter of his two surviving epigrams about grafting pear trees (A.P. 9.6): \u1fbf\u0391\u03c7\u03c1\u1f70\u03c2 \u1f14\u03b7\u03bd\u0387 \u03b8\u1fc6\u03ba\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c3\u1f73\u03bf \u03c7\u03b5\u03c1\u03c3\u1f76 \u03bc\u03c5\u03c1\u1f77\u03c0\u03bd\u03bf\u03bf\u03bd \u1f44\u03c7\u03bd\u03b7\u03bd &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u03b4\u1f73\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u1ff3 \u03c0\u03c4\u1f79\u03c1\u03b8\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd\u03b5\u1f77\u03c2\u0387 \u03c3\u1f74\u03bd \u03c7\u1f71\u03c1\u03b9\u03bd \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u03c3\u1f72 \u03c6\u1f73\u03c1\u03c9. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epigrams","category-ephemerides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}