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Headword: Muêthênai
Adler number: mu,1385
Translated headword: to have been initiated
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Those who were being initiated were thought to be enrolling with the pious. And Aristophanes [writes]: "for I must be initiated before dying."[1]
Greek Original:
Muêthênai: edokoun hoi muoumenoi eis tous eusebeis tattesthai. kai Aristophanês: dei gar muêthênai me prin tethnêkenai.
Notes:
The headword is the aorist passive infinitive of mue/w, from the quotation given.
[1] Aristophanes, Peace 375 (web address 1), with scholion; quoted already at delta 1516.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 August 2009@01:05:46.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 9 August 2009@04:38:33.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 28 May 2013@08:57:18.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 28 May 2013@18:30:43.

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