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Headword:
Bômos
Adler number: beta,492
Translated headword: altar; podium
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a sc. sacred] precinct.[1]
Also a place which has a way up for speaking things to be heard; onto this
Crates went up and said "
Crates is destroying the things of
Crates."[2]
And
Aristophanes [writes]: "for the altar is already at the doors."[3] Meaning it is prepared and at the ready.
Bômos: temenos. kai topos anabasin echôn pros to legein epêkoa: eph' hon Kratês anabas, Kratês apoluei ta Kratêtos, eirêke. kai Aristophanês: ho gar bômos thurasi kai dê. anti tou ex hetoimou esti pareskeuasmenos.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica. Latte on
Hesychius s.v. claims the headword as quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 8.48
[2] For
Crates (Krates) the Cynic philosopher see generally
kappa 2341. One source-extract there appears to refer to this episode (there is mention of an altar) but in different terms; for the wording of the present passage cf. rather [
Nonnus],
Scholia mythologica 4.28 (PG 36, 1001b).
[3]
Aristophanes,
Peace 942 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the
scholia there. Again at
theta 600.
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; biography; comedy; definition; epic; ethics; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 December 2001@13:17:02.
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