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Headword: Hermaion
Adler number: epsilon,3030
Translated headword: Hermes-gift, godsend
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning an] unexpected gain. [So called] from the first-fruits which are set out on the roads, which travelers eat.[1]
Or from the heaps of stones, which used to be dedicated to Hermes.[2]
"Not being content with the godsend as others [are], nor supposing that he has done nothing wrong, if he has willingly purchased anything from a willing seller."[3]
Greek Original:
Hermaion: to aprosdokêton kerdos. apo tôn en tais hodois tithemenôn aparchôn, has hoi hodoiporoi katesthiousin. ê apo tôn sôrôn tôn lithôn, hai tôi Hermêi anekeinto. ou kata tous allous agapêsas to hermaion, oude oiêtheis ara mêden adikein, ei hekôn par' hekontos hotioun eônêsato.
Notes:
See also epsilon 3031, epsilon 3032.
[1] Same glossing in Photius and other lexica, as well as scholia on Plato, Phaedo 107C, Symposium 217A, Gorgias 486E; also scholia to Lucian (154.25 Rabe).
[2] cf. Etymologicum Magnum 375.57. See also epsilon 3031.
[3] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 122 Zintzen (74 Asmus), cf. Photius Bibliotheca 341a 25-7: quoted more fully at epsilon 3036.
Keywords: aetiology; biography; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; food; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 December 2007@22:47:15.
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David Whitehead (augmented n.3; tweaks and cosmetics) on 24 December 2007@05:24:46.
David Whitehead (more x-refs; another keyword) on 28 October 2012@08:04:03.
David Whitehead on 28 October 2012@08:07:38.
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