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Headword:
Pharmakos
Adler number: phi,104
Translated headword: scapegoat
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The one who is killed for purification of a city, which they call
katharma.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the dative plural]
farmakoi=sin.
Aristophanes [writes]: "using for everything wicked men [descended] from wicked [forebears], [men] whom the city formerly would not easily have used even as scapegoats." That is, as what are called
katharmata.[2]
Pharmakos: ho epi katharmôi poleôs anairoumenos: hon legousi katharma. kai Pharmakoisin. Aristophanês: ponêrois kak ponêrôn eis panta chrômenos, hoisin hê polis protou oude pharmakoisin eikêi rhaidiôs chrêsait' an. toutesti tois legomenois katharmasi.
Notes:
[1] cf.
kappa 36; also
phi 105,
phi 106.
[2] An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Frogs 731-733 (which is governed by first person plural
xrw/meqa, not the Suda's participle
xrw/menos; there are also other small differences), with scholion. See web address 1.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 31 August 2011@02:17:32.
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