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Headword:
*za/molcis
Adler number: zeta,17
Translated headword: Zamolxis, Samolxis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Enslaved to
Pythagoras, as
Herodotus [says] in his fourth [book].[1] A Scythian, who returning [to his homeland] taught that the soul is immortal. But
Mnaseas says that Kronos was worshipped by the Getai and called Zamolxis.[2] And
Hellanicus in the
Barbarian Customs[3] says that having been born a Greek he made the mysteries known to the Getai who were in Thrace and said that neither would he himself die nor those with him, but they would have all good things. As soon as he said this he built a underground dwelling. Then disappearing suddenly from the Thracians he lived in this, but the Getai longed for him. In the fourth year he appeared again, and the Thracians trusted him completely. But some say that Zamolxis was slave to
Pythagoras the son of Mnesarkhos from
Samos, and after he was freed he played these clever tricks. But Zamolxis appears to have lived much earlier than
Pythagoras. The Terizoi and the Krobuzoi also consider themselves immortal and say that those who have died go away like Zamolxis, but will come back again. And they think that he was always speaking the truth about these matters. They sacrifice and feast, [believing] that he who has died will return.
*za/molcis: *puqago/ra| douleu/sas, w(s *(hro/dotos d#. *sku/qhs: o(\s e)panelqw\n e)di/daske peri\ tou= a)qa/naton ei)=nai th\n yuxh/n. *mnase/as de\ para\ *ge/tais to\n *kro/non tima=sqai kai\ kalei=sqai *za/molcin. *(ella/nikos de\ e)n toi=s *barbarikoi=s no/mois fhsi/n, o(/ti *(ellhniko/s te gegonw\s teleta\s kate/deice *ge/tais toi=s e)n *qra/|kh| kai\ e)/legen, o(/ti ou)/t' a)\n au)to\s a)poqa/noi ou)/q' oi( meta\ tou/tou, a)ll' e(/cousi pa/nta a)gaqa/. a(/ma de\ tau=ta le/gwn w)|kodo/mei oi)/khma kata/gaion. e)/peita a)fanisqei\s ai)fni/dion e)k *qra|kw=n e)n tou/tw| dih|ta=to. oi( de\ *ge/tai e)po/qoun au)to/n. teta/rtw| de\ e)/tei pa/lin fai/netai, kai\ oi( *qra=|kes au)tw=| pa/nta e)pi/steusan. le/gousi de/ tines, w(s o( *za/molcis e)dou/leuse *puqago/ra| *mnhsa/rxou *sami/w| kai\ e)leuqerwqei\s tau=ta e)sofi/zeto. a)lla\ polu\ pro/teros dokei= o( *za/molcis *puqago/rou gene/sqai. a)qanati/zousi de\ kai\ *te/rizoi kai\ *kro/buzoi kai\ tou\s a)poqanou=ntas w(s *za/molci/n fasin oi)/xesqai, h(/cein de\ au)=qis: kai\ tau=ta a)ei\ nomi/zousin a)lhqeu/ein. qu/ousi de\ kai\ eu)wxou=ntai, w(s au)=qis h(/contos tou= a)poqano/ntos.
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Keywords: biography; ethics; food; geography; historiography; mythology; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 March 2002@15:59:45.
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