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Headword:
Theôroi
Adler number: theta,225
Translated headword: theoroi, observers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] those sent to [perform] a sacrifice and to the festivals. Also [sc. attested is] a ship [called] Theoris,[1] on which the theoroi were sent to the out-of-town sacrifices on behalf of their home community, or to the sacred competitions and other festivals, and to the oracles.[2]
Sophocles [writes]: "it was as a theoros, he claims, that he left the country".[3]
However, "theoroi" is the term not only for the spectators but also for those being sent to [honor] a god; and altogether, this was the name for those safeguarding or being concerned with the godly; for they used to call concern
w)/rh.[4]
Theôroi: hoi eis thusian pempomenoi kai eis tas heortas. kai Theôris naus, di' hês pempomenoi epi tas thusias tas apodêmous huper tês patridos, ê kai epi tous hierous agônas kai allas panêgureis hoi theôroi estellonto, kai eis chrêstêria. Sophoklês: theôros hôs ephasken ekdêmôn. Theôroi mentoi legontai ou monon hoi theatai, alla kai hoi eis theon pempomenoi, kai holôs tous ta theia phulattontas ê tou theiou phrontizontas houtôs ônomazon: ôrên gar elegon tên phrontida.
Notes:
OCD(4) s.v.; and cf.
theta 223.
[1] See already
theta 221.
[2] Similar material in other lexica (and the
scholia to
Plato,
Phaedo 58B).
[3]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 114.
[4] From the end of Harpokration s.v.
theorika (sic). An alternative etymology is suggested for
qewro/s: instead of from
qea/ "seeing, contemplating" it could be from
qeos "god" and
w)/ra "care, concern."
Ian Rutherford, State Pilgrims and Sacred Observers: a study of theoria and theoroi (Cambridge & New York 2013); reviewed in BMCR 2015.05.40
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; religion; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 November 2000@06:02:10.
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