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Headword: Acherôn
Adler number: alpha,4688
Translated headword: Acheron
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A certain place in the middle of everything; in it occurs a drawing-up and swallowing of waters, until complete inundation; [it is] a dim and dark place. Yet Acheron is like a place of healing, not a place of punishment, cleansing and purging the sins of humans.
Greek Original:
Acherôn: topos tis mesos tou pantos: en hôi animêsis estin hudatôn kai kataposis, achri tou telmatos tou pantos, skoteinos tis kai aphengês. ho de Acherôn katharsiôi eoike kai ou kolastêriôi, rhuptôn kai smêchôn ta hamartêmata tôn anthrôpôn.
Note:
For Acheron see already alpha 4687. The source of the present entry is ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 5.31 (on Gregory of Nazianzus, PG 36, 1053d-56a).
Keywords: Christianity; definition; ethics; geography; mythology; religion; science and technology
Translated by: Samuel Huskey on 29 July 2000@15:18:27.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note) on 20 March 2001@07:32:18.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 9 May 2012@07:12:11.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 18 November 2014@22:07:05.
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