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Headword: Ouden hieron
Adler number: omicron,798
Translated headword: nothing holy
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Heracles, when he gazed at the wooden statue of Adonis, said that only those who have done good services for human beings ought to be honored; or [the phrase means] that slaves, fleeing to this [statue], did not have freedom from fear.
Greek Original:
Ouden hieron: Hêraklês eipen Adônidos idôn xoanon, hôs tôn euergetêsantôn tous anthrôpous monôn opheilontôn timasthai: ê hoti hoi kataphugontes eis auto douloi adeian ouk eichon.
Notes:
Likewise in Photius, Lexicon omicron615 Theodoridis, from Pausanias the Atticist; and see other references there, including several of the paroemiographers (e.g. Zenobius 5.47 = Clearchus fr.66b Wehrli).
cf. alpha 515 on the statue of Adonis; and for Adonis generally, see Apollodorus 3.14.3-4 (web address 1).
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Keywords: aetiology; botany; daily life; definition; ethics; law; mythology; proverbs; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Kyle Helms on 24 April 2010@12:38:17.
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David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 25 April 2010@05:20:10.
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