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Headword:
*(=w|
to\
i(ero\n
pu=r
ou)k
e)/cesti
fush=sai
Adler number: omega,263
Translated headword: he who is forbidden to blow the sacred flame
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [It is on record that]
Timaeus in [book] 38 tells the tale that Demokleides and his associates said, against
Demochares, that of all Athenians he was the only one forbidden to blow the sacred flame, on the grounds that he was impure in his upper parts. But
Duris in his tenth [book claims that] Pytheas said the same against
Demosthenes.
*(=w| to\ i(ero\n pu=r ou)k e)/cesti fush=sai: *ti/maion e)n lh# i(storei=n, w(s oi( peri\ *dhmoklei/dhn kata\ *dhmoxa/rous ei)=pon, o(/ti mo/nw| au)tw=| pa/ntwn *)aqhnai/wn ou)k e)/cesti to\ i(ero\n pu=r fush=sai, w(s mh\ kaqareu/onti toi=s a)/nw me/resin. *dou=ris de\ e)n th=| deka/th| *puqe/an kata\ *dhmosqe/nous to\ o(/moion ei)pei=n.
Notes:
Proverbial in
Diogenianus 8.72.
See
Polybius 12.13, and cf. already
delta 472 for
Demochares and "the upper parts of his body" -- his lips, in effect -- and the erotic use to which he had allegedly put them.
Timaeus: FGrH 566 F35.
Duris: FGrH 76 F8. Evidently the taunt was common currency amongst Athenian politicians in the last quarter of the C4 BCE.
The "sacred flame" burned in the Prytaneion: see generally S.G. Miller,
The Prytaneion (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1978) 13-14, 34-35.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 October 2001@04:37:04.
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