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Headword:
*)akro/lion
Adler number: alpha,1007
Translated headword: opening-sacrifice
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] first-fruit; just like a first-sacrifice.
"The Greeks sacrificed Polyxena as an opening-sacrifice".[1]
And elsewhere: "as many votive offerings and opening-sacrifices as there were to the gods".[2]
Greek Original:*)akro/lion: a)parxh/: w(/sper prwto/lion. *poluce/nhn kataqu=sai tou\s *(/ellhnas a)kro/lion. kai\ au)=qis: o(/sa h)=n qeoi=s a)naqh/mata kai\ a)kro/lia.
Notes:
Alternatively,
a)kro/leion or
a)kroqi/nion.
cf.
pi 2966.
[1] Perhaps
Aelian (so Adler). For Polyxena, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and this episode (in tragedy, not in
Homer) see generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.1177).
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 March 2000@10:05:16.
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