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Headword:
Dôdônê
Adler number: delta,1447
Translated headword: Dodone, Dodona
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city in Pelasgian Thesprotis.[1]
In it there stood an oak-tree, by which there was an oracular shrine with women prophets. When people entered to obtain oracular answers, the oak-tree was moved and made sounds. [The prophetesses] declared that "Zeus says this." And a statue stood in a lofty position holding a staff, and beside it a cauldron stood; and the statue would strike the cauldron, from which a certain harmonious sound came.[2]
But the utterances of the demons are inarticulate.[3]
Greek Original:Dôdônê: polis en têi Thesprôtidi Pelasgiai. en hêi histato drus, en hêi manteion ên gunaikôn prophêtidôn. kai eisiontôn tôn manteuomenôn ekineito dêthen hê drus êchousa: hai de ephthengonto, hoti tade legei ho Zeus. kai andrias histato en hupsei rhabdon katechôn, kai par' auton lebês histato: kai epaien ho andrias ton lebêta, ex hou êchos tis enarmonios apeteleito. hai de tôn daimonôn phônai anarthroi eisin.
Notes:
[1] cf. already
delta 1446.
[2] cf. already
delta 1445.
[3] A Christian remark, from a scholion (Cat. Bodl. p.47) on Gregory of Nazianzus = ps.-
Nonnus,
Scholia mythologica 5.17 (adding 'because of their not having organs of speech').
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 March 2005@23:01:57.
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