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Headword:
Tainaron
Adler number: tau,206
Translated headword: Tainaron, Taenarum
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A cape in Lakonike,[1] in which there was a cave-mouth leading down into the underworld. Here too [was] a sanctuary of Poseidon Asphaleios.[2] And when the helots [came] here[3] [and] sat down as suppliants in the sanctuary of Poseidon, the Lakedaimonians, fearing nothing, executed them; and on this account they were deemed accursed.[4] And
Aristophanes [writes]: 'may Poseidon, the god upon
Tainaron, shake and invade all these men's houses'.[5]
Tainaron: akrôtêrion tês Lakônikês, en hôi stomion ên katagon eis haidou. entha kai Poseidônos hieron Asphaleiou. ekeise de tous Ehilôtas hiketas kathesthentas en tôi hierôi tou Poseidônos ouden deisantes aneilon hoi Lakedaimonioi: kai dia touto edokoun enageis einai. kai Aristophanês: autois ho Poseidôn, houpi Tainarôi theos, seisas hapasin embaloi tas oikias.
Notes:
OCD(4) s.v. Taenarum.
[1] The regular name for Spartan territory.
[2] 'Poseidon of Safety'.
[3]
e)kei=se, lit. 'hither', is dependent on the participle
kaqesqe/ntas.
[4] For this notorious episode, in or before the mid 460s BC, see already
tau 205, and imprimis
Thucydides 1.128.1 (with S. Hornblower,
A Commentary on Thucydides, vol.1 (Oxford 1991) 212-13).
[5]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 510-11. The substance of the present entry derives from the
scholia on these lines.
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 31 December 2000@05:56:53.
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