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Headword:
Deikêla
Adler number: delta,1097
Translated headword: images, representations
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] imitations, likenesses.[1] The dei [is] a diphthong. Properly [it is] the image and likeness of Zeus, but by a misuse of language [it can be] any likeness.[2]
Greek Original:Deikêla: mimêmata, eikasmata. to dei diphthongon. kuriôs to homoiôma kai eikelon tôi Dii, katachrêstikôs de pan homoiôma.
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delta 308.
[1] Same glossing of this headword (a neuter plural) in
Photius; also in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon, though there it is
di/khla.
[2] The lexicographer supposes the word to be derived from
*Dii\ ei)/kelon "like Zeus" instead of from
dei/knumi. Cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 260.28.
Keywords: art history; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 September 2002@18:17:53.
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