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Headword:
Deras
Adler number: delta,250
Translated headword: skin
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The golden-fleeced skin, which Jason took after coming through the Black Sea with the Argonauts into Colchis, and [sc. taking also] Medea the daughter of the king Aietes. This was not as is reported in poetry, but it was a book written on skins, concerning how it is necessary that gold comes about through alchemy.[1] Therefore, the men of that time naturally called the skin "golden", because of the function which arose from it.
Greek Original:Deras: to chrusomallon deras, hoper ho Iasôn dia tês Pontikês thalassês sun tois Argonautais eis tên Kolchida paragenomenoi elabon, kai tên Mêdeian tên Aiêtou tou basileôs thugatera. touto de ên ouch hôs poiêtikôs pheretai, alla biblion ên en dermasi gegrammenon, periechon hopôs dei ginesthai dia chêmeias chruson. eikotôs oun hoi tote chrusoun ônomazon auto deras, dia tên energeian tên ex autou.
Notes:
Incompetently adapted from John of
Antioch fr.15.3 FHG (5.548), now 26.3 Roberto; the original has 'Jason and his associates' (justifying the plural participle
parageno/menoi which is retained here) and has them taking Medea
and the fleece. See also
mu 878.
[1] For alchemy cf.
chi 280 (and under
delta 1156).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 July 2002@20:42:34.
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