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Headword: Hekatên
Adler number: epsilon,363
Translated headword: Hekate, Hecate
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"From her one may learn whether it is better to be rich or to go hungry. For she says that those who have and who are wealthy send her a dinner each month, but that the poor among mankind snatch it before they put it down."[1] For it was customary for the rich to offer loaves and other things to Hekate each month, and for the poor to take from them.[2]
Greek Original:
Hekatên: apo tautês esti mathein eite to ploutein eite to peinên esti beltion: phêsi gar hautê tous men echontas kai ploutountas deipnon kata mên' apopempein, tous de penêtas tôn anthrôpôn harpazein prin katatheinai. ethos gar ên artous kai alla tina kata mêna tithenai têi Hekatêi tous plousious, lambanein ex autôn tous penêtas.
Notes:
For Hekate see also epsilon 361, epsilon 364, epsilon 365. The present headword, in the accusative case, is evidently quoted from somewhere. It does not occur as such in the Aristophanes passage given (see next note), although the genitive form of the name, *(eka/ths, does.
[1] An approximation of of Aristophanes, Plutus (Wealth) 594-7 (web address 1), the scholia to which are the source for the rest of the entry. After the first sentence the quotation is verbatim. See also pi 1795.
[2] On these food-offerings see LSJ s.v. *(eka/th, II, and Albert Henrichs in OCD(4) s.v. Hecate.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: chronology; comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; law; poetry; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 7 February 2007@08:31:19.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 7 February 2007@08:44:13.
William Hutton (augmented note) on 7 February 2007@09:05:14.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; tweaking) on 31 July 2012@08:19:29.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 3 August 2014@07:37:55.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 8 December 2015@03:03:24.
Catharine Roth (tweaked betacode) on 3 December 2016@11:59:29.
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