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Headword:
*fwkae/wn
a)ra/
Adler number: phi,635
Translated headword: Phokaians' vow, Phocaeans' vow
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase originating] because when [the] Phokaians were abandoning their city during the siege by Argos [
Myth,
Place][1] and had set out for Italy, they threw lumps of iron into the sea and swore that they would not return to their own land unless these were recovered.
*fwkae/wn a)ra/: *fwkaei=s ga\r katalipo/ntes th\n po/lin e)n th=| u(po\ *)/argou poliorki/a| w(/rmhsan e)p' *)itali/as, mu/drous ei)s th\n qa/lassan balo/ntes kai\ e)parasa/menoi mh\ pro/teron u(postre/yein ei)s th\n e(autw=n h)\ tou/tous a)nenexqh=nai.
Notes:
For this famous episode of 540 BCE, see
Herodotus 1.162-166, at 165 (web address 1).
Phokaia is on the coast of Asia Minor midway between the islands of
Lesbos and
Chios. See generally OCD(4) s.v. Phocaea.
cf.
Zenobius 6.35, etc.
[1] No, Harpagos. (The name Argos [
Myth,
Place] is an easy slip for that. Alternatively, the explanation might lie in the fact that, in the original, King Argathonios of Tartessos was involved in the story. See
tau 137.)
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; daily life; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; proverbs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 November 2001@05:03:13.
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