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Headword:
Aithôn
Adler number: alphaiota,142
Translated headword: blazing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] violent hunger. [So called] from a certain Aithon son of Helios;[1] [it was he] who chopped down Demeter's sacred grove and suffered due punishment and for this was was ever famished.
Greek Original:Aithôn: ho biaios limos. apo Aithônos Hêliou tinos: hos to Dêmêtros alsos katekopse kai timôrian hupestê axian kai dia touto elimôtten aei.
Notes:
From ancient comment on
Callimachus,
Hymn 6 (to Demeter), which has the phrase
limo\n ai)/qona at lines 66-67.
[1] Or (Toup) Aithon 'of Elis'.
Keywords: aetiology; botany; definition; ethics; food; geography; imagery; mythology; poetry; religion
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 4 November 2002@06:30:51.
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