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Headword:
Puthia
kai
Dêlia
Adler number: pi,3128
Translated headword: Pythia and Delia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They say that
Polycrates, the tyrant of
Samos,[1] having created the Pythia and the Delia [festivals] in
Delos at the same time, sent an embassy to the oracle of the god [Apollo] to ask whether he was performing the details of the sacrifice in accordance with what was ordained: the Pythia answered: "these things are your Pythia and Delia": she intended to make clear that this was the end, for after a short time it happened that he was killed.
Epicurus in one of his letters to
Idomeneus [said] these things.[2]
Also said is "at Pytho", that is, in the Pythian [games].
Aristophanes [writes]: "at
Olympia, in [Thermo]pylai, [and] at Pytho."[2]
Puthia kai Dêlia: phasi Polukratê, ton Samou turannon, Puthia kai Dêlia poiêsanta hama en Dêlôi pempsai eis theou, chrêsomenon ei ta tês thusias agei kata to hôrismenon: tên de Puthian anelein: tauta soi kai Puthia kai Dêlia: boulomenên dêloun hoti eschata: met' oligon gar chronon auton apolesthai sunebê. Epikouros de en tini tôn pros Idomenea epistolôn tauta. legetai de kai Puthoi, toutestin en tois Puthiois. Aristophanês: Olumpiasin, en Pulais, Puthoi.
Notes:
For the first and principal paragraph here (also in
Photius pi1515 Theodoridis, and cf. some of the paroemiographers) see again at
tau 175; and see J. Fontenrose,
The Delphic Oracle: its responses and operations with a catalogue of responses (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1978) 307, #Q116.
[1] Tyrant of
Samos c.535-c.522. See generally OCD4
Polycrates(1).
[2]
Epicurus fr. 136 Usener.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 1131, with scholion.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 June 2000@06:43:43.
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