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Headword:
Boêdromia
Adler number: beta,357
Translated headword: Boedromia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [The verb]
bohdromei=n ["to run to help"] was the name for helping,[1] that is running into battle. But the Boedromia is a certain festival of this name at
Athens, to mark the day when the son of Xouthos[2] had provided such enthusiastic help to [the] Athenians when they were at war with Eumolpos the son of Poseidon. Erechtheus was king of
Athens at the time.
Boêdromia: boêdromein men to boêthein ônomazeto, toutestin epi machên dramein. esti de hê Boêdromia heortê tis Athênêsi kaloumenê, kath' hên hêmeran eboêthêsen ho Xouthou spoudêi pollêi polemoumenois Athênaiois hupo Eumolpou tou Poseidônos. Erechtheus de tote Athênaiôn ebasileuen.
Notes:
From Harpokration s.v., commenting on the headword's appearance in
Demosthenes 3.31 (and citing
Philochorus FGrH 328 F13).
[1] cf. already
beta 356.
[2] His name has fallen out of the text here:
Ion. Xouthos is mentioned at
xi 82.
OCD(4) s.v. (p.236)
Keywords: aetiology; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs; mythology; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 October 2000@03:57:13.
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