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Headword: Dromois
Adler number: delta,1535
Translated headword: [in] races
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[In] the gymnasia on Crete.[1]
"[In] the race he made his deeds correspond with his nature, and came out holding the most glorious prize of victory"[2]. He is talking about Orestes, [who is] in effect not failing the ends [of the race], but he is appearing equal to the ends. Meaning equal and admired in the race as for his beauty: that is, just as [he is] admirable for his beauty, so did he appear for his action; just as for his appearance, so too for his action.
Interpretation of dreams:[3] to move slowly[4] creates unfortunate paths. To run in dreams creates steady good fortune.
Greek Original:
Dromois: tois gumnasiois kata Krêtas. dromôi d' isôsai têi phusei ta pragmata nikês echôn exêlthe pantimon geras. peri Orestou phêsin. hoion ouk elleipôn kata ta termata, all' isos phaneis tois termasin. anti tou isos kai tethaumasmenos en tôi agônismati hôs epi têi morphêi: toutestin hôs thaumastos epi têi morphêi, houtô kai epi tôi ergôi ephanês, hôs epi tôi eidei houtô kai epi tôi ergôi. lusis oneirôn: argôs kineisthai dustucheis poiei tribous. trechein kath' hupnous eustheneis poiei tuchas.
Notes:
[1] The headword, which must be quoted from somewhere, is dative plural of dro/mos "race". For this glossing (also in Photius, Lexicon delta758), LSJ s.v. cites a Cretan inscription of the mid-third century BCE, in which the city of Itanos honours King Ptolemy II Euergetes (SIG 463.14). Note, nevertheless, that in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon the gloss is simply toi=s gumnasi/ois, suggesting a wider application. (Plato, Phaedrus 227A-B, perhaps lies behind Timaeus' entry.)
[2] The quotation is Sophocles, Electra 686-687, but it is here corrupted: the manuscripts read genitive dro/mou instead of dative dro/mw|, and te/rmata instead of pra/gmata, as inserted in ms A by a more recent hand. The reading th=| fu/sei also is doubtful, though the scholion ad loc., which the present gloss follows, seems to be based on it (kata\ th\n au)tou= fu/sin th=s ni/khs e)/tuxen, "the victory he achieved was corresponding to his appearance"). Musgrave's conjecture ta)fe/sei (= th=| a)fh/sei, "to the start") deserves consideration, since th=s a)fh/sews is elsewhere corrupted into th=s fu/sews. According to this interpretation the translation of the verse would be "equalling his finishing with his starting off", meaning that as Orestes started off first, so he ended up first. A different explanation is provided by another scholion: according to some critics Orestes would have run "a long race" (dolixo/n), that is, twenty stadia, a number which corresponded to his age.
[3] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychos (alpha 4251); the first of them already at alpha 3786. This addendum to the present entry is not in ms T; the author has probably added it because of the analogy of theme, since the passages concern running or moving in dreams.
[4] Literally "in a lazy way".
Keywords: athletics; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; dreams; geography; imagery; mythology; philosophy; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 12 April 2005@18:01:50.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 12 April 2005@20:15:16.
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