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Headword:
Dêmêtêr
Adler number: delta,426
Translated headword: Demeter
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the earth,[1] as if being Ge-meter ["earth-mother"].
Since the earth is a foundation of every city, as holding up the cities she is represented wearing towers [sc. as a crown].[2]
And elsewhere: "they were inhabiting a land especially fortunate and good for bringing forth fruit, sweet and abundant wine."[3]
Greek Original:Dêmêtêr: hê gê, hoionei Gêmêtêr tis ousa. epei de hedra pasês poleôs estin hê gê, hôs bastazousa tas poleis plattetai purgophoros. kai authis: ôikoun de gên eudaimona malista kai karpous enenkein ousan agathên, oinon hêdun kai polun echousan.
Notes:
For Demeter cf.
delta 427,
delta 428.
[1] Likewise is ps.-Herodian.
[2] ps.-Codinus,
Patria Constantinopoleos 2.6 (Preger,
Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum 153.13-15); already at
gamma 224.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. Adler suggests
Aelian. Be that as it may, a version of it has already appeared under
alpha 1090, q.v.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 September 2002@20:31:43.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added keywords; cosmetics) on 17 September 2002@03:49:34.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; another keyword; cosmetics) on 8 March 2011@10:11:36.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; another keyword) on 25 June 2012@09:59:53.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 9 August 2013@00:21:27.
David Whitehead (another note; cosmetics) on 17 October 2015@03:43:38.
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