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Headword: *qeoge/nhs
Adler number: theta,133
Translated headword: Theogenes, Theagenes
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Of Thasos;[1] this man -- while still a boy[2] -- lifted a bronze statue which was situated in the agora [there] and carried it on his shoulders[3] into his house. But the citizens were angry, so he picked it up again and returned it to the agora. This feat brought him great fame throughout Greece.
Greek Original:
*qeoge/nhs, *qa/sios: ou(=tos e)/ti pai=s w)\n a)/galma xalkou=n e)n th=| a)gora=| kei/menon a)naqe/menos e)pi\ tou\s w)/mous h)/negken ei)s to\n oi)=kon. o)rgizome/nwn de\ tw=n politw=n, pa/lin a)ra/menos e)ko/misen ei)s th\n a)gora/n. kai\ a)po\ tou/tou me/ga kle/os e)/sxen a)na\ th\n *(ella/da.
Notes:
From Pausanias 6.11.2-9, at 2-3. The Suda has changed the name there from Theagenes to Theogenes.
[1] The island in the N Aegean; cf. theta 58, theta 59, theta 60.
[2] Of eight, according to Pausanias.
[3] Pausanias makes a point of saying one shoulder.
Keywords: art history; athletics; biography; geography; medicine; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 August 2001@03:14:23.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 10 August 2003@01:19:15.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword) on 10 August 2003@05:34:47.
David Whitehead on 31 December 2012@06:00:25.
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