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Headword: Ammôn
Adler number: alpha,1638
Translated headword: Ammon
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a Greek[1] god.
Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "we are your Ammon, Delphi, Dodona, Phoebus Apollo; for you come to the birds first before starting your work."[2]
Greek Original:
Ammôn: onoma theou Hellênikou. Aristophanês Ornisin: esmen d' humin Ammôn, Delphoi, Dôdônê, Phoibos Apollôn: elthontes gar prôton es ornis houtô pros erga trapesthe.
Notes:
OCD(4) s.v. (pp.71-2).
[1] Or, "pagan"; cf. in any event at pi 147.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 716-7.
Keywords: comedy; definition; geography; religion; zoology
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 7 July 1999@14:41:52.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword; added bibliography and keyword; cosmetics) on 2 March 2001@04:30:37.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 29 April 2006@12:36:11.
Catharine Roth (added note) on 24 February 2010@01:16:02.
David Whitehead (more keywords; raised status) on 2 August 2011@05:21:34.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 16 February 2012@05:02:57.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 30 July 2014@05:25:53.
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