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Headword:
Barathron
Adler number: beta,99
Translated headword: pit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A certain well-like and dark chasm in Attica, in which they used to throw evil-doers; in this chasm there were hooks, some on top and some below.[1] There they threw the Phrygian [priest] of the mother of the gods on the grounds that he had gone mad, when he told them that the mother was coming in search of the maiden. The goddess then was angry and sent a blight of crops to the country; and when they knew the cause [of the blight] through an oracle they covered over the chasm and made the goddess propitious with sacrifices.
Greek Original:Barathron: chasma ti phreatôdes kai skoteinon en têi Attikêi, en hôi tous kakourgous eballon: en de tôi chasmati toutôi hupêrchon onkinoi, hoi men anô hoi de katô. entautha ton Phruga ton tês mêtros tôn theôn enebalon hôs memênota, epeidê proelegen, hoti erchetai hê mêtêr eis epizêtêsin tês korês. hê de theos orgistheisa akarpian epempse têi chôrai: kai gnontes tên aitian dia chrêsmou to men chasma katechôsan, tên de theon thusiais hilaon epoiêsan.
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Keywords: aetiology; agriculture; botany; comedy; definition; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; geography; medicine; mythology; religion; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 April 2002@17:47:47.
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