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Headword:
*xa/ritas
Adler number: chi,123
Translated headword: favors; Graces
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] privileges, kindnesses. "He sent
Theodorus to promise favors, in return for the fact that he had honored the greatest emissary of the Romans to the utmost."[1]
Also [sc. attested is] a proverb: 'the Graces [are] naked'; because it is necessary to give favors [
xari/zesqai] simply and openly;[2] or because the Graces are deprived of their own adornment.[3]
There are three Graces: Peitho, Aglaia and Euphrone.[4]
*xa/ritas: tima/s, eu)ergesi/as. o( de\ ste/llei *qeo/dwron, o(mologh/sonta xa/ritas, a)nq' w(=n to\n me/giston *(rwmai/wn presbeuth\n e)ti/mhsen e)s ta\ ma/lista. kai\ paroimi/a: *ai( *xa/rites gumnai/: h)/toi o(/ti dei= a)felw=s kai\ a)fane/rws xari/zesqai: h)\ o(/ti ai( *xa/rites to\n e(autw=n ko/smon a)fh/|rhntai. trei=s de\ ai( *xa/rites, *peiqw/, *)aglai/+a kai\ *eu)fro/nh.
Notes:
The headword is accusative plural, presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] An approximation of part of
Menander Protector fr. 18.6 Blockley, via the
Excerpta de legationibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 158.
[2] cf.
Zenobius 1.36; see also
alphaiota 386 where the Suda mss read
fanerw=s ("openly") -- as translated here -- rather than the
afane/rws ("in secret") which Adler prints.
[3] Again there is a variant reading in the quotation of this passage in
alphaiota 386, which reads
a)xa/ristoi ("those who lack the gifts of the graces") for this entry's
*xa/rites ("the Graces"); cf.
Zenobius 1.36.
[4] The earliest source we have for these names of the Graces is Hesiod,
Theogony 907. (See web address 1 below.)
Homer mentions the Graces several times, but only once gives a name: "Pasithea" (if
Iliad 14.269 is genuine).
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 March 2008@04:07:18.
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