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Headword: *)eteobouta/dai
Adler number: epsilon,3283
Translated headword: Eteoboutadai, Eteobutadae
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A very famous clan [amongst] Athenians, [named] after Boutos; [it is the body] from which the priests at Athens are appointed.[1]
The Eteoboutadai [are] descendants of Boutos the priest; for eteon indicates true.[2]
Greek Original:
*)eteobouta/dai: ge/nos *)aqhnai/ois polu\ lampro/n, a)po\ *bou/tou: a)f' ou(= oi( i(erei=s kaqi/stanto *)aqh/nhsin. o(/ti oi( *)eteobouta/dai a)po/gonoi tou= *bou/tou tou= i(ere/ws. to\ ga\r e)teo\n a)lhqe\s dhloi=.
Notes:
Carelessly (see n.1) abridged from Harpokration s.v., itself generated by the mention of the Eteoboutadai in fr.38 Conomis of the C4 orator and statesmen Lycurgus (himself the most famous Eteoboutad). See also beta 466, beta 467.
[1] Too sweeping a generalisation. Harpok. was more precise, specifying the priestess of Athena Polias (but even he should have added the priest of Poseidon Erechtheus).
[2] From beta 467; and cf. epsilon 3285.
Reference:
Robert Parker, Athenian Religion (Oxford 1996) 290-293
Keywords: aetiology; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 July 2006@05:07:35.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 7 July 2006@11:25:47.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; added bibliography) on 9 July 2006@04:07:35.
David Whitehead on 8 July 2011@04:50:20.
David Whitehead on 4 November 2012@04:11:03.
David Whitehead on 19 February 2016@06:32:33.

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