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Headword: *)orgew=nas
Adler number: omicron,512
Translated headword: cult-members
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
There is a speech of Isaeus to cult-members.[1] Cult-members [o)rgew=nes] are those coming together to honor gods or heroes; for [the verb] o)rgia/zein is sacrificing and seeing[2] the customary acts - either from stretching out [o)re/gein] the hands or from the secret rites [o)/rgia,[3] or because the ceremonies are performed in o)rga/des[4] and groves. Perhaps the custom of giving the same name to people gathered together to honor some of the dead and to cult-members arose later, as can be seen from the will of Theophrastus.
"One of the orgeones from Eleusis", says Aelian in On Forethought.[5]
Greek Original:
*)orgew=nas: *)isai/ou lo/gos e)sti\n w(s o)rgew=nas. o)rgew=nes de/ ei)sin oi( e)pi\ timh=| qew=n h)\ h(rw/wn sunio/ntes: o)rgia/zein ga/r e)sti to\ qu/ein kai\ ta\ nomizo/mena o(ra=n: h)\ para\ to\ o)re/gein tw\ xei=re: h)\ para\ ta\ o)/rgia: h)\ dia\ to\ e)n tai=s o)rga/si kai\ toi=s a)/lsesi ta\ i(era\ dra=n. oi( me/ntoi poihtai\ e)/tatton tou)/noma a(plw=s e)pi\ tw=n i(ere/wn. mh/pote de\ u(/steron nenomi/sqai to\ e)pi\ timh=| tinas tw=n a)poqano/ntwn sunie/nai kai\ o)rgew=nas o)noma/zesqai, w(s e)/sti sunidei=n e)k tw=n *qeofra/stou diaqhkw=n. tw=n e)c *)eleusi=nos o)rgew/nwn ei(=s: fhsi\n *ai)liano\s e)n tw=| *peri\ pronoi/as.
Notes:
The main part of this entry is an abridgement of Harpokration s.v.
For the headword noun (here in the accusative plural: see next note) cf. omicron 509, omicron 510, omicron 511.
[1] Isaeus fr. 111 Sauppe. The Suda's w(s o)rgew=nas is a corruption of Harpok.'s pro\s ... ('In reply to ...').
[2] So the transmitted text, o(ra=n; but change to dra=n, "performing" (as in Harpok.). On o)rgia/zein, see omicron 516.
[3] cf. omicron 515.
[4] See omicron 504, omicron 505.
[5] Aelian fr. 10a Domingo-Forasté (10 Hercher).
Reference:
OCD(4) 1046
Keywords: aetiology; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 December 2000@07:02:05.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, cross-references, status) on 29 January 2004@01:11:16.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 29 January 2004@03:08:02.
Catharine Roth (updated reference in note 5) on 25 March 2011@23:26:08.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 27 March 2011@03:55:05.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 13 July 2011@05:55:08.
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