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Headword: *nekui/a
Adler number: nu,146
Translated headword: Nekuia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The festival of the dead, among Persians [called] phroudiga, in Greek Nekuia.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] nekuosto/los ["ferryman of the dead"], [meaning] he who transports the dead.[2]
"Carrier of the dead, ferryman, receive [me] Diogenes the dog, who have laid bare the pretentiousness of every life."[3]
Greek Original:
*nekui/a: h( tw=n nekrw=n e(orth/, froudi/ga para\ *pe/rsais, *(ellhnikh\ nekui/a. kai\ *nekuosto/los, o( tou\s nekrou\s diaperw=n. to\n ku/na *dioge/nhn, nekuosto/le, de/cai porqmeu=, gumnw/santa bi/ou panto\s e)pisku/nion.
Notes:
[1] Part of Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley.
[2] i.e. Charon [Author, Myth] (chi 135, chi 140)
[3] Greek Anthology 7.63 (author unknown); cf. epsilon 2591 and note thereto on the epigram's ascription. On Diogenes the Cynic, see delta 1141, delta 1143, and delta 1144.
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; imagery; philosophy; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 October 2005@00:54:40.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 26 October 2005@04:11:21.
Catharine Roth (modified translation at Hutton's suggestion) on 3 December 2007@10:47:57.
Catharine Roth (further modified the translation) on 3 December 2007@19:09:46.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 3 January 2012@06:52:40.
David Whitehead on 5 June 2013@07:52:59.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 21 October 2020@00:46:24.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, tweaked attribution, added cross-reference) on 29 January 2021@19:08:45.
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