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Headword: Anathêma
Adler number: alpha,1878
Translated headword: dedication, offering
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] anything which has been dedicated to a god.
When [the god] was asking Pelops for a dedication of the golden lamb and he was offering other treasures [instead], [the god] replied: "give me what I want; do not give me what I don't want."[1]
It is also said a)na/qema.[2]
Greek Original:
Anathêma: pan to aphierômenon theôi. aitountos tôi Pelopi anathêma tên arna tên chrusên, hetera parechonti keimêlia, echrêsen: ho boulomai dos: mê didou d' ho mê thelô. legetai de kai Anathema.
Notes:
[1] For this material cf. alpha 2671.
[2] i.e. with epsilon rather than eta as the penultimate vowel. See already alpha 1869.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 March 2001@08:07:19.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 29 March 2001@05:02:52.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 29 July 2002@05:51:32.
David Whitehead (betacode and other cosmetics) on 23 February 2012@05:03:06.
David Whitehead on 28 June 2015@08:22:53.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 30 June 2015@20:48:55.
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